Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:01:15 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot floppy, missing "install bootmanager"-only submenu Message-ID: <199512192101.WAA01389@mordillo> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951212221904.215A-100000@knobel.gun.de> from "Andreas Klemm" at Dec 12, 95 10:27:20 pm
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hasn't Andreas Klemm said ? ... > > Hi Jordan ! > > We spoke about that some weeks ago. You said weeks ago on IRC, > that you'd implemented me idea, to offer a "write bootmanager"- > only menue point on the boot floppy just for the case, that > Windows95 or Windows NT nuked your main boot sector during > installation. > > Now I got the new 2.1 installation floppy via ftp and I saw nothing at > all on the top menues. > > The only thing I saw was the menue about installing or not installing > the boot manager after leaving the partitioning menu ... > But it doesn't seem to write it immediately ... > > What I wanted was a simple menue, to "refresh/reinstall" the > bootmanager. It should be accessable in the toplevelmenue ... > > What about it ?! You said, it would be there on the 2.1 floppy, > I didn't find it ?! Am I getting old ? ;-) > what about: dd if=bteasy17 of=/dev/yourdrive bs=446 count=1 this way it worked often for me - bteasy17 is uuencoded in /usr/src/release/sysinstall t _______________________________________________________||___________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de ___________________________||__________________graichen@FreeBSD.org_________
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