Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:52:25 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com (Howard Goldstein) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootmanager - easier way to reinstall? Message-ID: <199703261752.SAA15406@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199703261715.MAA23893@bbs.mpcs.com> from Howard Goldstein at "Mar 26, 97 12:15:03 pm"
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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.. > > -- Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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