windows killed my boot manager

Dany dany_list at natzo.com
Wed Jan 7 09:56:24 PST 2004


I use Smart Boot Manager to boot my Windows and FreeBSD. If fits on the 
MBR of the first disk and allow ID swap as well as hidding.

http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/



Dan Dan wrote:

>I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x
>install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot
>manager from the CD. However, looking at the FAQ
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DAMAGED-BOOT-MANAGER
>to answer my question, the answers don't work for me:
>
>- if I try to run bootinst from within XP, it won't
>let it access the MBR
>
>- I don't have a floppy drive. When I go through this
>process on the CD, there's no (W)rite command in the
>partition editor (which should actually be called a
>slice editor, right?) When I exit, it asks if I want
>to install the boot loader, but it doesn't do it. When
>I try to commit my changes, it wants new partition
>label, and asks be what packages to install
>
>- If I try to go to the fixit shell, I can't really
>get a live filesystem. At least, not from the
>installation CD. I know there's another FreeBSD live
>CD project out there, but it's based on 4.x, and I'm
>not sure if the boot loader has changed at all,
>because I can't find a version history anywhere.
>
>So... What's the current (5.x) answer to this dilemma?
>
>Thanks,
>Dan
>
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