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From: gorhas@electra.saaf.se (G|ran Hasse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing the FreeBsd BootManager
Date: 14 Mar 1996 21:18:33 +0100
Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening
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Message-ID: <4i9uup$4qn@electra.saaf.se>
References: <31431ba9.1305446@news.aug.com>
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In article <31431ba9.1305446@news.aug.com>,
Chris Smith <phadreus@aug.com> wrote:
>I am having one hellova a time with the Boot Manager. I have a two
>disk IDE box. I have set up FreeBSD and the boot manager adout a dozen
>times now so that FreeBSD will boot from the second drive, a 1 gig IDE
>drive. The install allways works... til I reboot my machine,  I have
>the option of F1 for dos or F5 for BSD  I hit F5 and I get  F1 for Dos
>F5 for BSD  ... HELP...  Maybe dumping the old boot manager "or
>Windows 95" will Help??? 

You can reinstall the MS-DOS boot manager with the (undocumented
command)

FDISK /MBR

Is there any similar command for Win95?