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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!van-bc!uniserve!n1ott.istar!n3ott.istar!istar.net!news.magi.com!worldlinx.com!news.bellglobal.com!news From: dma@aei.ca (David Ma) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can boot manager be added after *BSD installed? Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 17:45:02 GMT Organization: Bell Global Solutions Lines: 40 Message-ID: <319b68b5.6118249@news.aei.ca> References: <4mu73c$j6n@mark.ucdavis.edu> <MMEAD.96May10095859@neon.Glock.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: diala13.aei.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 On 10 May 1996 13:58:59 GMT, mmead@neon.Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) wrote: >In article <4mu73c$j6n@mark.ucdavis.edu> white <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> writes: > > >> 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. > > Yes, the boot manager will help you in this situation. A couple of >questions. Do you have FreeBSD installed *only* on your second disk, or is >there a root partition on the first disk? I'm assuming the former. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ <snip> Ugh. Sounds like a pain. I actually kind of did the same thing, except that I have FreeBSD on a partition in the middle of a 1.6 GIG (so that the root filesystem is below 504). After installing Win95, my boot manager disappeared -- given the strange things that Win95 did with my boot sector, is the method you described in the above message workable with win 95? David