Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:42:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Xiongying Yang <ubap741@sun308.ccs.bbk.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSD BOOT Manager Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970213152854.6915D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199702131243.EAA08264@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Xiongying Yang wrote: > Hi, I have a question on the BSD boot manager..... > I know that when you first install BSD it will configure the boot > manager for you... > But...suppose when I have a system there and messed up the > boot MBR by some other loaders, how can I install the BSD > boot manager again without going to PARTITIONs, disklabel, > commit .... etc, because it will make changes to my running system. Just run 'bootinst.exe' off the FreeBSD CDROM from your first hard disk to restore BootEasy. (you'll also need boot.bin if you grab it via ftp) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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