From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 22 22:14:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03988 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 22:14:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.x-link.ml.org (ns2.x-link.ml.org [163.195.1.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03977 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 22:14:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgreven@erm1.mpu.gov.za) From: sgreven@erm1.mpu.gov.za Received: from mpues.x-link.ml.org (mpues.x-link.ml.org [163.195.44.11]) by ns2.x-link.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA10897 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:08:34 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from sgreven@erm1.mpu.gov.za) Received: from thor.mpu.gov.za (thor.mpu.gov.za [172.22.62.91]) by mpues.x-link.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA11828 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:12:35 +0200 (SAT) Received: from cyborg.mpu.gov.za (cyber95 [172.22.62.94]) by thor.mpu.gov.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA27308 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:15:44 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199803230615.IAA27308@thor.mpu.gov.za> Comments: Authenticated sender is To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:05:14 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Re-installing the boot manager In-reply-to: <3515D877.4012955F@scitec.com.au> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I had FreeBSD 2.2.5 installed on a notebook and went and installed > Win95 on another partition. However in typical style Win95 wiped > the boot menu. Now I know how to get back the standard FreeBSD > bootblock using "disklabel -B", but how do I get back the bootmenu > that allows me to select which OS to boot with a function key? > After doing much the same thing, (and spending weeks trying to fix it ..... and eventually re-installing, :) ... I found that the answer to this question lies in the FAQ on www.freebsd.org . it requires a re-install of the bootmanager only. in the FreeBSD installation tree, you will find a file called /pub/FreeBSD/???-RELEASE/tools/bootinst.exe , just run that on your DOS partition, and get backk your boot manager, ..that is assuming you are using the standard boot manager :) Regards Sean Sean Greven Principle Data Technologist Mpumalanga Provincial Government 082 893 5573 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message