From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 05:45:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA22459 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 05:45:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22452 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 05:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tomg@nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id IAA07853; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:44:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA00467; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:46:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:46:46 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good To: Jeff cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: How do I get rid of boot manager? In-Reply-To: <199812021339.HAA20882@photon.soltec.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Jeff wrote: > Question, please: A while back, on my multi boot sys, which is Win > 9x/NT 4.0 and FreeBSD 2.2.7 I believe I came up with a virus. One > morning while getting on the PC I noticed my ONLY option at the > boot prompt was F1 to go to DOS, no more F5 to go to FreeBSD. > My question is, How can I get rid of boot easy option, the MBR and > start over again, without destroying the functional system of Win > 9x/NT4.0, and then re-install? It seems I remember a DOS > command (I have also the complete DOS 6.22 on c:\) like format > /mbr Close...I booted with a dos disk and ran: fdisk /mbr. This will do it on dos boxes, not sure about win95...although its really dos 7.0. Good luck! > The problem is though, and I admit my inabilities here readily, I > don't want to wipe out the whole MBR and lose both my current > sys functionality. I am assuming most of you are already way out > in front of me on this, and most of what I'm saying is probably > redundant & bores you to tears. :) > > I would sure appreciate any help and substantive advice. > > Jeff Rogers > jlr@soltec.net > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Cheers, Tom ----------- Sisters of Charity Medical Center ---------- Department of Psychiatry ---- Thomas Good, System Administrator North Richmond CMHC/Residential Services Phone: 718-354-5528 75 Vanderbilt Ave, Quarters 8 Fax: 718-354-5056 Staten Island, NY 10304 www.panix.com/~ugd ---- Powered by PostgreSQL 6.3.2 / Perl 5.004 / DBI-0.91::DBD-PG-0.69 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message