>From: John Maier <JohnAM@datastorm.com>
>Date: Thu, 07 Mar 96 10:04:00 PST

>My MBR got wiped (not sure why).   I can still get to the drive via a DOS   
>based NetBSD boot loader, but I would sure like to be able to just boot   
>the drive.

Boot DOS (from floppy if you can't boot the HD), and run "FDISK /MBR".
DOS overwrites the MBR boot code with its own, while preserving the
partition table.

If you had OS-BS or booteasy installed on that drive, just reinstall
it.
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