From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 9:26: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D3637B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:26:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E48EE328E; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:49:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97BB328D; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:49:43 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:49:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting RID of the boot manager In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20001011121248.02154b70@64.20.73.233> 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 > Once the boot manager is installed, how can we safely get rid of it. I > can see where one might "dd" some garbage to the first 512 bytes on the > sector, but I want to be sure :) The best and quickest way I've found is fdisk /mbr with a DOS disk... (one of the few things it can do right.) If you need a dos boot disk check www.bootdisk.com Rick Rick's FreeBSD Help Site! http://www.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message