From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 11:24:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E74B37B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 66003 invoked by uid 100); 11 Oct 2000 18:24:20 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14820.45140.543641.966413@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:24:20 -0500 (CDT) To: Rick Hamell , forrie@forrie.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting RID of the boot manager In-Reply-To: <69491228@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell writes: > > 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 You can get the same effect without a DOS disk with "fdisk -B /dev/.." while running freebsd. This also works if you manage to fry the boot sector of a Windows partition; just point it at the partition instead of the disk.