From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 22:54:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA19066 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 22:54:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA19061 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 22:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #13307) id <01I4ZG3B04IO006S0I@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Tue, 21 May 1996 22:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 22:54:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: Re: Boot Manager Problem To: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I4ZG3B0NTE006S0I@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu" X-VMS-Cc: IN%"freebsd-questions@freebsd.org",ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Doug, is it possible to reinstall BootEasy without reinstalling everything >> else? From the install disk (boot floppy) or stand/sysinstall? > >> This is what I think got trashed that was providing the info to the >> OS/2 boot manager-- >Yes. It's on the first CD in /tools (maybe /tools/dist) or on ftp.freebsd.org >in a similar location. >OS-BS is a different boot manager that is also available. Thanks--I managed to install OS-BS (from a bootable DOS floppy onto which I'd copied the files from the CD). The OS/2 boot manager never did find the FreeBSD partition on the second hard drive, but OS-BS did, so it's all working. Annelise >Doug White | University of Oregon