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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dual Boot Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 11:49:48 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 25 Message-ID: <31DAC0CC.15A5@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4rcb0i$q0c@news.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Joseph Steinberg wrote: > > I just installed Windows 95 over my DOS partition -- and my dual boot > prompts upon booting (F1-DOS,F5-Other then F1-FreeBSD F5-other) are gone. > Anyone know how to restore them? > Thanks. > JS I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Win95 is a pig! Among other things, it insists on writing its own boot sectors, as you've discovered. To put FreeBSD's Boot Manager back in, boot from the boot floppy and use the boot: -c option to disable enough non-existent peripherals that the kernel won't hang. When the Install selection window appears, select Novice installation. mark and select wd0 as the installation medium, but when the partition info appears, make no changes. Instead, select the "write partition data immediately" option. Accept the Boot Manager option when it appears. When the next display starts asking about slices in the FreeBSD partition, remove the boot floppy and do an immediate hard reset of your computer. This should restore the Boot Manager. Ken