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From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: lost freebsd boot when installing win95...
Date: 27 Dec 1995 22:41:12 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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Message-ID: <4bsi28$11u@parody.tecc.co.uk>
References: <rreiner.820077328@nexus.yorku.ca>
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In article <rreiner.820077328@nexus.yorku.ca>,
Richard Reiner <rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca> wrote:
>
>Client installed Windows 95 (without consulting me).  This apparently
>replaced the MBR with one that just boots win95.  So FreeBSD partition
>is inaccessible.

This is a known problem with Win95's rather anti-social installation.
There have been a few discussions about this on the mailing lists, but 
I don't unfortunately seem to have kept any of them (as I don't use
Win95).

Anyway, if you go to http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au and probe around a bit,
I believe there's a searchable archive of the mail lists there somewhere.
MBR would probably be a good search string 8-)

If you do find a good solution, please post it here and perhaps it will
be picked up and put into the FAQ - I can see this problem occurring 
again quite a few times in the future.

Good luck
James
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