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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:40:17 +0300 (IDT)
From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Howard Goldstein <hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com>
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Subject: Re: Bootmanager - easier way to reinstall?
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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Howard Goldstein wrote:

> 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,

Boot into DOS (Billy made Win95 so that even its DOS mode will not let 
you do that) and then run the bootinst.exe program from the tools 
directory (it's both on the CD and the ftp site).

Nadav