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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!news3.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: windows messing with boot manager Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:34:03 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32B9FB1B.695678E2@FreeBSD.org> References: <32B881E8.518F@ucs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: help@ucs.ubc.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32835 Helpdesk wrote: > While I was going through the process of installing BSD I discovered > that if I have to reinstall windows after BSD, windows will mess up the > boot manager. (ie. I no longer have the option at start-up to boot Yeah, it's basically just become conventional wisdom that if you're going to install both Win95 and FreeBSD on a box, you should install Win95 first and then FreeBSD second. ;-) Nonetheless, you can run `booteasy' from the tools/ subdirectory of your FreeBSD release to reinstall a boot manager which Win95 has cruelly stabbed from behind. Just type "\tools\bootinst.exe \tools\boot.bin" or some such.. --- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project