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From: white <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Can boot manager be added after *BSD installed?
Date: 10 May 1996 01:45:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Hi, I have done a network install of freeBSD 2.1 on my system
but screwed up the boot manager portion (i.e. all the files
are there, but I can't boot freeBSD).  Do I have to do a
re-install or is it possible to just to the boot manager part.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I can't seem to 
find the information about this stuff again.

Oh, I have a fairly unusual configuration.  I have a small
(250M) drive as my C: drive (or drive 0 if you perfer) with
DOS/WIN and a 1G drive with FreeBSD as the D: drive (the
C: is of course the master and bootable, whereas D: is 
jumpered as slave).  I thought I remembered reading that
the Boot Manager would allow this configuration, but cannot
find it again.  Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. If the advice is to look in the FAQ or read the FreeBSD
handbook, could you refer to the particular section that is
supposed to contain the material?  Thanks again.

- Mike
  mdwhite@ucdavis.edu