From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 11:47:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA15496 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:47:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from titan.tcn.net (Krw@titan.tcn.net [199.166.4.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA15480 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:47:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from Krw@localhost) by titan.tcn.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA05704; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:50:05 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:50:04 -0500 (EST) From: ken westerback To: Howard Goldstein cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootmanager - easier way to reinstall? In-Reply-To: <199703261715.MAA23893@bbs.mpcs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On the CD-ROM there is a DOS program /tools/bootinst that installs booteasy. At least there is for 2.1.7. ---- Ken 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? > >