Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:09:45 -0400 From: "Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS" <mike.jeays@statcan.ca> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Getting RID of the boot manager Message-ID: <F2DCDE350C71D411A68900902715763B9F6394@msxa4.itsd.statcan.ca>
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> > From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:24 PM > To: Rick Hamell; forrie@forrie.com > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Getting RID of the boot manager > 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. > <mike As a related question, I have a Win95 disk on the primary drive, and FreeBSD on the secondary. I would like to switch the Win95 disk for a larger one, and re-install Win95 on it. Once the first drive has been removed, I won't be able to get FreeBSD to boot. Nor will my machine support booting from the CD. How should I proceed, please? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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