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From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to recover BSD Boot Manager
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 20:31:25 -0400
Organization: Freshman, H&SS Undeclared, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 17-Oct-95 Re: How to
recover BSD Boot.. vega@glasnet.ru (525)
> From: "Vlad D. Nebolsin" <vega@glasnet.ru>
> /* Written 12:58 PM Oct 17, 1995 by jarekb@ire.pw.edu.pl in
> glas:comp.fbsd.misc */
> /* ---------- "How to recover BSD Boot Manager" ---------- */
> > Simple question: how to install BSD Boot Manager, my friend did fdisk /mbr
> > under his DOS Partition sheeesh.
> I'm afraid nobody know how to. I've posted a couple times the similar ad,
> but didn't get any answer. ;(
> There is only very radical method to reinstall the system or boot BSD
> from loaded MS-DOS.
I've seen it posted a few times, I think -- but then, I keep an eye on a
few too many newsgorups for my own good ;). FreeBSD uses booteasy,
which is available at..
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools/os-bs135.exe
It's a self extracting archive.. put it in a directory on your dos
drive, run it, and then take a look at the docs included. Try the
command bootinst, and it might be a good idea to create a boot floppy
and put the backup boot sector(s) it generates onto the floppy along
with the bteasy commands so you can restore if need be. It's a pretty
easy-to-survive job.
-Robert
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Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS
http://www.watson.org/ robert@fledge.watson.org