Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 11:45:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson) Cc: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager Problem Message-ID: <199605221845.LAA04689@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <01I4ZG3B0NTE006S0I@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> from "Annelise Anderson" at May 21, 96 10:54:36 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> >> 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. The main requirement that the OS/2 boot manager has is the normal signature word (which BSD has) and alignment to a cylinder boundry of the partition start and end (which you can only guarantee by knowing the geometry or making the thing in DOS first). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199605221845.LAA04689>