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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!hal.COM!usenet From: reverse@hal.com (Mark Seeman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot manager erazed! Please help! Date: 28 Dec 1995 01:53:08 GMT Organization: HAL Computer Systems Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4bsta4$erm@news.hal.com> References: <4bcsd2$7hr@shore.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: atlantic.hal.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 In article <4bcsd2$7hr@shore.shore.net>, eholm@shore.net says... > >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 > >Thanks a lot. > The active partition was changed from the BSD partition to the DOS partition. Boot from the FreeBSD startup floppy, then select Custom Installation options, then Partition. Highlight the freebsd partition and press S to set it as bootable. Then press W to write the changes to disk. You'll then see a screen asking what kind of boot you want. Let it default to the boot manager, of course. After it has finished writing, just reset your machine and the boot manager should appear. Also, I imagine you could simply run dos FDISK and set the boot partition to the non-dos partition, but I didn't bother with trying that.