Bug 20226

Summary: FAQ update for "win95 killed mbr" question
Product: Documentation Reporter: John Reynolds <jjreynold>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description John Reynolds 2000-07-27 19:50:03 UTC 
  The description how to get back your MBR if Windows 95 or '98 "boorishly"
  nukes it in a dual-boot situation has been enhanced to show the "boot0cfg"
  command. Also, the "Windows 95" has been rev'ed to include Windows 95/98
  because the same procedures apply to 98 as 95.

Fix: Apply the following patch to /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
How-To-Repeat: 
  See FAQ :)
Comment 1 ben freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-07-27 20:24:56 UTC 
jjreynold@home.com wrote:

> +<screen><prompt>Fixit# </prompt> <userinput>boot0cfg -B bootdevice </userinput></screen>
> +<para></para>

Nuke the empty <para>.

> +<para>substituting <quote>bootdevice</quote> for your real boot device such

<replaceable> around "bootdevice" in both places, and don't use <quote> at
all for that.

> +as ad0 (first IDE disk), ad4 (first IDE disk on auxiliary controller), da0
> +(first SCSI disk), etc.

You probably need <devicename> around the device names.

Other than that, it doesn't look too bad.  I don't know if you need the
space with <prompt> either.  I know technically the space *is* included in
the prompt, but there's a space after the normal root prompt as well which
isn't included in the &prompt.root entity:

freebsd.dtd:<!ENTITY prompt.root                "<prompt>#</prompt>">

But I'm getting picky now. :-)

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Comment 2 John Reynolds 2000-07-27 20:33:22 UTC 
[ On Thursday, July 27, Ben Smithurst wrote: ]
> 
> Nuke the empty <para>.
> 
> <replaceable> around "bootdevice" in both places, and don't use <quote> at
> all for that.
> 
> You probably need <devicename> around the device names.
> 
> Other than that, it doesn't look too bad.  I don't know if you need the
> space with <prompt> either.  I know technically the space *is* included in
> the prompt, but there's a space after the normal root prompt as well which
> isn't included in the &prompt.root entity:
> 
> freebsd.dtd:<!ENTITY prompt.root                "<prompt>#</prompt>">

Cool. I was mostly copying from the previous "listitem" which is why you see
some of the stuff the way it was.

Do you want me to slightly reformat it per the above suggestions before it's
committable? 

> But I'm getting picky now. :-)

be gentle :)

-Jr

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Comment 3 ben freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-07-27 21:43:57 UTC 
John Reynolds wrote:

> Do you want me to slightly reformat it per the above suggestions before it's
> committable? 

No need really, they're easy enough for me to do myself.  I'll probably
commit this in a few hours unless someone else wants to before then.

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Comment 4 ben freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-07-28 01:34:51 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed, thanks!