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From: cander@cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to recover BSD Boot Manager
Date: 20 Oct 1995 20:06:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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vega@glasnet.ru wrote:
: There is only very radical method to reinstall the system or boot BSD
: from loaded MS-DOS.

I saw all the various ways of doing it the right way, but out of curiousity,
how does one boot from a running DOS prompt?  This would be enough for
my limited purposes.

--

Charles Anderson
IEOR Graduate Student