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Subject: Re: Recovering from clobbered boot manager?
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To: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 01:15:26 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>,
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From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
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Lamont Granquist wrote:
[snip]
> Okay, the difficulty though is that I had clobbered my boot manager with a
> Win2K install (dual-booting) and the CDROM doesn't give you the boot0cfg
> command.  I had to install onto a 2nd hard drive and then boot into that

no, but the CDROM has the kern.flp floopy which should be sufficient.
as nearly you can, interrupt the boot process using <space> then
you should get the following prompt :

>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:

you just have to enter :

0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader

if that don't work, let's try :

0:ad(0,a)/kernel

which should work in any case.

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net

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