Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 07:49:06 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: After installing W95 bootmgr failed ... Message-ID: <199810171449.HAA14703@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:49:00 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.3.96.981016003023.1331A-100000@ns.double-barrel.be>
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You will need to reinstall the booteasy MBR. W95 performs an fdisk /mbr during its install. Whenever possible, always install the MS O/S first then non-MS O/S's. The Minix fdisk will save the MBR to a file. One could use it or save the MBR using dd, install an MS O/S, and restore the MBR. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Government of BC > However I've been able to boot freeBSD from slice 2 without a bootmgr by > just switching the activated partition and then rerun sysinstall and all > was okey again. > > Michael > --- > Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, > Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ > B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ > Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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