From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 11:16:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F52F16A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:16:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from dm3cnd.bell.ca (dm3cnd.bell.ca [206.47.0.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6612C43D2F for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:16:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from christopher.hollow@cgi.com) Received: from 142.122.115.62dm3cnd.bell.ca with ESMTP (Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay (MMS v5.0)); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:54:00 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: F7F6AAF0-A437-4F8E-BDFA-B18CACF73C6B Received: from cgi.com ([142.122.30.40]) by bt5c69.on.bell.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 BESI_Messaging_7 Apr 29 2002 13:22:02) with ESMTP id HS7MPZ00.KGZ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:17:59 -0500 Message-ID: <4017EEC6.9030907@cgi.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:17:58 -0500 From: "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jerry McAllister" References: <200401281607.i0SG76F27800@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200401281607.i0SG76F27800@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-WSS-ID: 6C06DA8594098-194-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: archangeleli@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: remove boot problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:16:08 -0000 If you have removed FreeBSD from your drive and would like to remove the FreeBSD bootloader, boot from a DOS floppy and run fdisk /mbr. The /mbr switch will "re-MS" the Master Boot Record, removing the BSD bootloader. Christopher Hollow Jerry McAllister wrote: >>Hello, >> >> I recently installed Free BSD. I have two hard drives. I put it on the >>second one. I took it of the drive because of some problems. Now when I boot >>up a dos message comes up saying the following: >> >> >>F1 ??? >>F2 Disk 1 >> >>Boot:F1 >> >> > >This is your MBR talking. > > > >>The last part I cant remember exactly what it says but it is something like >>that. I would like to know if their is something I need to delete of edit to >>stop this from coming up? Thank you. >> >> > >I don't know in MS land. In FreeBSD world check out boot0cfg(8) and >related things. > >////jerry > > > >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > -- Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant Infrastructure & Technology Support 1 Dundas St. West, 11th floor, Toronto, ON