Subject: Re: Installed Win95, Lost dual boot? (os-bs)
To: Feico Dillema <dillema@acm.org>
From: Joel Reicher <void@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/20/1997 00:23:01
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Feico Dillema wrote:
>
> I re-installed the DOS-bootblock using pfdisk (if memory serves
> me right). Being a bit paranoid, I'd saved a copy on a floppydisk
> before starting Win'95 install. If you don't have such a copy,
> I guess it should be possible to create one anew or copy it
> from somebody else's disk. (I'm not enough of a DOS guru to be
> sure about these things...).
The command "fdisk/mbr" installs a boot block. The 6.22 version of fdisk
does a 6.22 bootblock, the win95 fdisk does a win95 one. Don't look for
documentation on that command line option, I've never been able to find any.
- Joel Reicher