Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:31:22 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?B?Sm9lbCBCavZyaw==?= <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> To: "Hank Willenbring" <hcwillenbring@west.rsc.raytheon.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: SV: Install FreeBSD 3.2 wipes out Win95 boot mgr (bug??) :| Message-ID: <001701bf1007$789af560$b1102fc2@gsten.hh.se> References: <37FB57DE.CDDB7172@west.rsc.raytheon.com>
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<snip>=20 > Is there a way that I can recover the MBR so that I can bring = Windows95 > back up?? I looked at the "disklabel" utility and it is not obvious > that it will work for Windows95. If you have any suggestions, you can > save me alot of pain of re-installing Win95 (not to mention my wife = will > be _much_ happier if she can get back to using her Win95 applications > soon!!). >=20 > New to the FreeBSD community but a long time Unix hacker. >=20 > Thanks, Hank. boot with your win95 disk and enter the following at the prompt: fdisk /mbr You should now be able to boot to win95. You will however not have the option to boot in to FreeBSD. There is a bootmanager in the tools directory called osbsbeta.exe that = you can install from windows that will work on multiple IDE disks and = worked very well for me. Do not forget to backup your MBR, it is still = in beta. Joel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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