Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!not-for-mail From: jlohn@cs.umd.edu (Jason Lohn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Whoops, lost MBR Date: 1 Nov 1995 00:08:00 -0500 Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <476vbg$sgk@snocap.cs.umd.edu> References: <4766k9$9gc@makai.maui.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: snocap.cs.umd.edu Keywords: win95 MBR In article <4766k9$9gc@makai.maui.net>, Gary Blumenstein <garyb@hula.maui.net> wrote: >Yikes! Windows 95 blew away my master boot record. I (was) running >BSDI v1.1 Can I replace it by running bootany? What's the procedure? > >-Gary > I had the same problem and fixed it by booting from the diskettes, and running disksetup -i (for some reason disksetup -B wd0 didn't work for me). I skipped the first set of questions until I hit something like "install new MBR [no]?" where you say yes. From there, I think I accepted the defaults for each question... worked for me... Jason jlohn@cs.umd.edu