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update the "win95 killed my boot manager" question to mention the boot0cfg

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program.  Also mention win98 as well as win95.

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</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.79 2000/07/20 21:38:17 ben Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.80 2000/07/25 18:24:48 ben Exp $</pubdate>
<abstract>
<para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X. All entries
@ -1306,22 +1306,22 @@ The multi-OS page.</ulink></para>
</answer></qandaentry>
<qandaentry><question>
<para>Can Windows 95 co-exist with FreeBSD?</para></question><answer>
<para>Can Windows 95/98 co-exist with FreeBSD?</para></question><answer>
<para>Install Windows 95 first, after that FreeBSD. FreeBSD's boot
manager will then manage to boot Win95 and FreeBSD. If you
install Windows 95 second, it will boorishly overwrite your
<para>Install Windows 95/98 first, after that FreeBSD. FreeBSD's boot
manager will then manage to boot Win95/98 and FreeBSD. If you
install Windows 95/98 second, it will boorishly overwrite your
boot manager without even asking. If that happens, see
the next section.</para>
</answer></qandaentry>
<qandaentry><question>
<para> Windows 95 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back?
<para> Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back?
</para></question><answer>
<para>You can reinstall the boot manager FreeBSD comes with in one of
two ways:</para>
three ways:</para>
<itemizedlist>
@ -1353,6 +1353,23 @@ This will re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of the
installation menu and reboot off the hard disk as normal.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy (or CD-ROM) and choose the
<quote>Fixit</quote> menu item. Select either the Fixit floppy or
CD-ROM #2 (the <quote>live</quote> file system option) as appropriate
and enter the fixit shell. Then execute the following command:
</para>
<screen><prompt>Fixit#</prompt> <userinput>boot0cfg -B <replaceable>bootdevice</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para></para>
<para>substituting <replaceable>bootdevice</replaceable> for your real
boot device such as <devicename>ad0</devicename> (first IDE disk),
<devicename>ad4</devicename> (first IDE disk on auxiliary controller),
<devicename>da0</devicename> (first SCSI disk), etc.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.79 2000/07/20 21:38:17 ben Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.80 2000/07/25 18:24:48 ben Exp $</pubdate>
<abstract>
<para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X. All entries
@ -1306,22 +1306,22 @@ The multi-OS page.</ulink></para>
</answer></qandaentry>
<qandaentry><question>
<para>Can Windows 95 co-exist with FreeBSD?</para></question><answer>
<para>Can Windows 95/98 co-exist with FreeBSD?</para></question><answer>
<para>Install Windows 95 first, after that FreeBSD. FreeBSD's boot
manager will then manage to boot Win95 and FreeBSD. If you
install Windows 95 second, it will boorishly overwrite your
<para>Install Windows 95/98 first, after that FreeBSD. FreeBSD's boot
manager will then manage to boot Win95/98 and FreeBSD. If you
install Windows 95/98 second, it will boorishly overwrite your
boot manager without even asking. If that happens, see
the next section.</para>
</answer></qandaentry>
<qandaentry><question>
<para> Windows 95 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back?
<para> Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back?
</para></question><answer>
<para>You can reinstall the boot manager FreeBSD comes with in one of
two ways:</para>
three ways:</para>
<itemizedlist>
@ -1353,6 +1353,23 @@ This will re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of the
installation menu and reboot off the hard disk as normal.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy (or CD-ROM) and choose the
<quote>Fixit</quote> menu item. Select either the Fixit floppy or
CD-ROM #2 (the <quote>live</quote> file system option) as appropriate
and enter the fixit shell. Then execute the following command:
</para>
<screen><prompt>Fixit#</prompt> <userinput>boot0cfg -B <replaceable>bootdevice</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para></para>
<para>substituting <replaceable>bootdevice</replaceable> for your real
boot device such as <devicename>ad0</devicename> (first IDE disk),
<devicename>ad4</devicename> (first IDE disk on auxiliary controller),
<devicename>da0</devicename> (first SCSI disk), etc.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>