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From: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
Cc: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>,
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Subject: Re: Recovering from clobbered boot manager?
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Ah, right, I tried to figure out what to do there to try to boot from my
hard drive partition, but I couldn't figure it out.  For my own personal
use I can see I'll have to learn how to do that right, but might I suggest
that in the interest of making FBSD more user friendly that the syntax or
at least the help be improved?

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net
>
>


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