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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: Bootmanager - easier way to reinstall?
In-Reply-To: <199703261715.MAA23893@bbs.mpcs.com> from Howard Goldstein at "Mar 26, 97 12:15:03 pm"
To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com (Howard Goldstein)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:52:25 +0100 (MET)
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Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> Another os had to go in the first partition of a system that had
> 2.1.5R in it's third partion.  OK, the "other" os was win95 but I had
> no choice.
> 
> In the process slick billy's baby overwrote the MBR to ensure that
> competing os's would have a hard time booting via boot managers.
> 
> I could only figure out how to bring FreeBSD's boot manager back by
> going through a custom install from the floppy, mounting the slices
> but not selecting any packages to install.  It worked but the process
> toasted a few useful /etc files (sysconfig and fstab).
> 
> Question: Is there a better way to reinstall boot manager?

Yes. Get bootinst.exe or any other program e.g. from the
/pub/FreeBSD/tools directory, put it on your Win95 partition
and boot to Win95's DOS prompt. You then can harmlessly rewrite
the MBR by executing bootinst (or whatever) from the DOS prompt.. 


> 
> 

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Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de