Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 02:04:55 -0500 From: Tom Jackson <toj@gorilla.net> To: Incoming Mail List <mailist@whoweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBR Message-ID: <19970704020455.59779@peeper.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199706251143.HAA05807@whoweb.com>; from Incoming Mail List on Wed, Jun 25, 1997 at 07:43:13AM -0400 References: <199706251143.HAA05807@whoweb.com>
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On Wed, Jun 25, 1997 at 07:43:13AM -0400, Incoming Mail List wrote: > Are there any tools or strategies available to install an MBR > and boot manager without going through /stand/sysinstall and > partitioning the disk in V2.1? > > I managed to screw up the partitions on a running disk, but > restored them successfully. However, when I now boot the > machine it stops at: > > boot F? > > I've used my boot floppy to get around this so I can boot the > disk, and I guess I'm assuming the MBR is gone on the disk. > So can I put the MBR back on without destroying the disk > partitions? > > Jon If you have a dos partition, put bootinst.exe and related files in your dos c: root. Type bootinst, answer with 'y' or 'n'. Presto, you have it. I think this utility is in the utils directory. You may need a `fdisk /mbr' if you've messed up the boot record. Hope that helps, Tom
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