Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:36:23 +0100 From: Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager Message-ID: <32426597.611A@nation-net.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960919182353.537B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Leonardo Cardoso wrote: > > > I need to recover my last boot manager (with Windows NT 4.0 and > > Windows 95), so I type the command "FDISK /mbr" in Win95. The boot manager > > of freeBSD was deleted and only the manager of the NT appears! > > > > When i try to install FreeBSD again, the boot manager don't works, > > and I can't boot in my second hard drive (where FreeBSD is installed)! > > Known bug. The boot manager was installed to the second drive, which of > course doesn't help. Install it yourself by grabbing the 'bootinst.exe' > and 'boot.bin' files out of /tools off of the CDROM or > ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/tools. Then run 'bootinst' to put booteasy > on. > > You'll have to do this from DOS. I assume WinNT has the same > write-protected boot sector that win95 does. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Is it true that bootinst has to be run from 'real' dos and not win95 dos? Regards Paul -- paul@nation-net.com Walsh Simmons 0161-839 9337 Manchester, UK
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