Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00293; Wed, 20 Dec 95 03:55:31 EST Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27371; Wed, 20 Dec 95 03:55:32 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA17603; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 03:55:33 -0500 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA03750 Tue, 19 Dec 1995 23:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA03716 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 23:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (omega.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA03696 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 23:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mordillo (oberon.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.126]) by omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id IAA23711; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 08:23:05 +0100 (MET) Received: (from graichen@localhost) by mordillo (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA01389; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:01:15 +0100 From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <199512192101.WAA01389@mordillo> Subject: Re: Boot floppy, missing "install bootmanager"-only submenu To: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:01:15 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Andreas Klemm" at Dec 12, 95 10:27:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk hasn't Andreas Klemm said ? ... > > Hi Jordan ! > > We spoke about that some weeks ago. You said weeks ago on IRC, > that you'd implemented me idea, to offer a "write bootmanager"- > only menue point on the boot floppy just for the case, that > Windows95 or Windows NT nuked your main boot sector during > installation. > > Now I got the new 2.1 installation floppy via ftp and I saw nothing at > all on the top menues. > > The only thing I saw was the menue about installing or not installing > the boot manager after leaving the partitioning menu ... > But it doesn't seem to write it immediately ... > > What I wanted was a simple menue, to "refresh/reinstall" the > bootmanager. It should be accessable in the toplevelmenue ... > > What about it ?! You said, it would be there on the 2.1 floppy, > I didn't find it ?! Am I getting old ? ;-) > what about: dd if=bteasy17 of=/dev/yourdrive bs=446 count=1 this way it worked often for me - bteasy17 is uuencoded in /usr/src/release/sysinstall t _______________________________________________________||___________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de ___________________________||__________________graichen@FreeBSD.org_________