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From: "Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS" <mike.jeays@statcan.ca>
To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:  RE: Getting RID of the boot manager
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:09:45 -0400
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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?

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