From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 11:51:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA17135 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 11:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17128 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 11:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA04689; Wed, 22 May 1996 11:45:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605221845.LAA04689@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Boot Manager Problem To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 11:45:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <01I4ZG3B0NTE006S0I@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> from "Annelise Anderson" at May 21, 96 10:54:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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. 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.