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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!usenet From: Charles Reese <reese@chem.duke.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help - Boot problem Date: 1 Nov 1996 19:27:57 GMT Organization: Duke University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <55divt$720@newsgate.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: async49.async.duke.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) The CMOS memory on my 486/120 had to be reset and now although the boot manager offers me a choice of F1 or F2 it just recycles the select message if I enter F2. I can boot off the boot.flp and it accepts wd(0,a)/kernel and boots the kernel on the hard disk. All the files seem to be there as they were before. Any ideas on how to restore the Boot manager? Can it be deleted and re-installed? Install a different boot manager? Help TIA Charlie Reese