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From: Arabinda Bose <axb00@arrowsmith.com>
Subject: Problem during FreeBSD installation
To: hackers@FreeBsd.org
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 9:25:00 CDT
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Hi,
  I have a FreeBSD 2.0, released in Jan 1994. I had DOS/WINDOWS
  installed on my Pentium 90MHZ and I blew up my hard disk
  boot code during the installation of Free BSD. Could anyone
  please help. 

  I partitioned my hard disk for DOS (400 Meg) and kept 412 Meg
  for BSD. I installed the DOS on the machine first and then 
  started installing FreeBSD from the boot diskette. 
  I went through the partioning of file systems fine, allocated
  swap space on 'b' and fixed the mount points for /, /usr, etc
  and did "Proceed". It said, this will erase your hard disk,
  proceed Y/N, I did a Yes and then it asked to reboot. After
  the reboot, it came up with two options 
   F1 DOS
   F2 FreeBSD
   Nothing happened when I press F1 or F2. 

   I deleted the BSD and tried to install DOS again but it gave the
   similar prompt(F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD) during the reboot. I guess my 
   boot record on the hard disk has got corrupted. Can you tell me 
   how to get back again if I want to change my boot program on the 
   harddrive ?

   I tried to format the "C" drive, it didn't help.

   Thanks in advane

   -- Arabinda Bose