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From: John Stark <jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Re-installing boot manager
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 00:50:41 GMT
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I've just had the same problem (as a result of installing the release version
of Windows 95 over a beta).  The way I eventually solved it was to:

1. boot into Windows 95
2. copy the files tools\bootinst.exe and tools\boot.bin into C:\
3. select "Reboot in DOS mode" from the "Shutdown" menu
4. run bootinst.exe

This got things working, though I think it's a different version of boot
manager since it refers to my FreeBSD partition as "386bsd" whereas the
original one referred to it as "bsd".
-- 
John Stark (jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk)
68 Stanley Road, Cambridge CB5 8LB
Tel. Cambridge (01223) 573555