Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:00:12 -0600
From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
To: tinker@safemail.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.1 boot failure after install = ("F1 . . . BSD" looping)
Message-ID: <9604262000.AA07516@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov>
In-Reply-To: <199604261914.TAA60916@garlic.com> (tinker@safemail.com)
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>>>>> "William" == "William O Yates" <tinker@safemail.com> writes:
William> I do not NEED nor WANT any form of Boot-Manager, and
William> I read the docs, and thought this would not install
William> any...
If you've got a copy of MS-DOS 6.2 handy, you can zap the boot
manager by running
FDISK.EXE /MBR
So long as the FreeBSD slice is the only bootable slice on the
disk, your system should just boot right up ... I hope.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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