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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:11:59 +0200 (IST)
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com>
Cc:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot Manager
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960920121125.3756B-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <32426597.611A@nation-net.com>

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On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Paul Walsh wrote:

> 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?
At least for me it didn't work from Win95 DOS mode. I had to boot the DOS 
6.22 floppy to get it to install.

> 
> 
> Regards Paul
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> paul@nation-net.com	Walsh Simmons 		
> 0161-839 9337		Manchester, UK
> 
Nadav



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