From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 06:26:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA15257 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 06:26:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from cy.com (root@jake.atlwin.com [155.229.56.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA15222 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 06:26:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from jake.atlwin.com ([155.229.56.58]) by cy.com (8.6.12/8.6.4) with SMTP id KAA25299 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:27:21 -0500 Message-Id: <199601221527.KAA25299@cy.com> X-Sender: tkelley@cy.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:22:56 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: "Tim M. Kelley" Subject: Removing boot manager, again. Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I wish to remove the boot manager installed during the freebsd install process. The reason for this is because the boot manager does not recognize my freebsd (bootable) disk. When I try FDISK /MBR (even booted from a floppy), FDISK returns with NO FIXED DISKS INSTALLED! I suspect that FDISK doesn't work is because of my PCI system or the big DOS (1.2 GB) disk, but that's just a guess. Incidentally, the only reason I want to remove the boot manager is because it doesn't recognize the FreeBSD disk. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is the relevant system: Pentium 75 Mhz, 32 Mb RAM PCI Bus, Intel Motherboard (triton chipset) 1.44 Mb floppy Western Digital AC31200 IDE drive, (DOS disk) 1.2 Gb master drive on primary IDE Toshiba ATAPI 4X cdrom slave on primary IDE Maxtor IDE drive, (FreeBSD disk) 1.0 Gb master drive on secondary IDE Maxtor 7213A IDE drive, (currently garbage, to be used by DOS) 202 Mb slave drive on secondary IDE