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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Boot manager erazed! Please help!
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 17:34:26 GMT
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Evgeny Holmansky (eholm@shore.net) wrote:
: Hi everyone!
: I made an upgrade of my DOS from 6.0 to 6.22 (don't ask me why I needed
: to do that ;-( ) and the damn thing erazed the FreeBSD Boot Manager from
: the boot record.
: I have no idea how to restore it.
: Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
: Please respond to this newsgroup or by e-mail to eholm@shore.net or
: to kholma@rpi.edu
a way might be (but no warranties - for me it works fine) - boot from
disk and then
dd if=bteasy17 of=/dev/your_drive bs=446 count=1
bteasy is uuencoded in /usr/src/release/sysinstall
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