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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!decwrl!its.hooked.net!mclark From: mclark@hooked.net (Matt Clark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Broken Boot Manager Date: Thu, 07 Mar 96 23:07:59 GMT Organization: Get HooKed! 1-800-2-HooKup Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4hnqbm$61v@its.hooked.net> References: <1996Jan25.200012.9995@schbbs.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: webe-3.ppp.hooked.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <1996Jan25.200012.9995@schbbs.mot.com>, gil@max.corp.mot.com (Gil Levendel) wrote: > >I've installed both Windows95 and FreeBSD 2.1 on my computer >(in that order), and I was able to gracefully boot either >FreeBSD or Windows95 successfully. > >Unfortunately, I blundered. For some reason I typed "fdisk /mbr" >at the Windows95 DOS prompt, assuming that I would at least be >prompted before it did anything. Apparently, this placed the >standard Windows95 "booter" into the master boot record of my >hard disk, which boots ONLY Windows95--yuck. I can now only switch >between the two by setting the active partition using fdisk. > >Anybody know how can I (painlessly) re-install the FreeBSD boot manager? > > >Thanks much, >Gil Levendel > >gil@max.corp.mot.com > > > There is a boot util called OS-BS (OS-BootSelect) in the dos utils directory of your cd. Copy the file (\tools\osbs135.exe) to your hard disk and run it. Then, go into DOS (Ick) mode and goto the directory that osbs135 created (were you watching?) and run the file osbs.com. Follow prompts. Reboot. Tada! (I think that OSBS is prettier than booteasy (FBSD booter)) --matt Clark