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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot manager Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:59:42 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 35 Message-ID: <324AFCCE.46D1@www.play-hookey.com> References: <MPG.cb4a48e2fb47cb4989685@netnews.ntc.nokia.com> <01bbac09$69830d20$6b16abc7@pcrawlings.jlsc.wpafb.af.mil> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com 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 3.0 (Win16; U) The Rawlings wrote: > > rerun the boot disk, go into the install and don't change your partitions > or slices. don't choose any packages to install. make sure you choose to > have the boot manager installed. finish the installation. It will give > you a few errors at the end about not being able to find the kernel. > ignore them. when it's done exit the install and reboot. This might be > the wrong way to do it, but it worked for me. Anyone that passes through > this thread feel free to criticize my method if it's wrong. If this was to > terse for you, mail me and I'll write some more detailed instructions. > My preference is to pick the Novice install and, after selecting the boot manager, select an immediate write to disk. (with nothing new defined, of course.) This loads the boot manager at once, and you can then pull the boot floppy and reboot directly. > James Card <james.card@ntc.nokia.com> wrote in article > <MPG.cb4a48e2fb47cb4989685@netnews.ntc.nokia.com>... > > I was wondering if someone could tell me a way that I might > > restore FreeBSD's boot manager? I installed Win95 after > > installing FreeBSD and of course Win95 clobbered the > > original one. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > James Card > > -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |