From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 22 20:13:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2B737B401 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FEFA43E6A for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:13:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from jud@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [63.214.197.30] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.12 $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:11:52 -0600 Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 23:12:20 -0400 From: Jud To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: dpenev@mail.bg, grant@thenetnow.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Remove Multiple Boot Message-Id: <20020922231220.3aa76f59.jud@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <20020923001044.GA438@hades.hell.gr> References: <002f01c2623e$220ae930$6501a8c0@grant> <20020922212014.GA239@earth.dpsca.bg> <20020923001044.GA438@hades.hell.gr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 03:10:44 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-09-22 21:20, "D. Penev" wrote: > > "Grant Peel" : > > >I have recently converted another PC to FreeBSD and no longer need > > >FreeBSD on my usual workstation. I am running Windows XP on the > > >workstation, and need to remove the (Easy Boot) boot manager and > > >have the conputer return to just automaticly booting to woindows. > > >Does anyone know how to remove it? > > > > Boot from XP cdrom, start Recovery Console and use fixmbr command. > > Fdisk that Giorgos suggest is no longer supported by XP. > > Thanks for correcting me. I haven't seen a Windows machine since a > long time ago, and certainly haven't got up to date with their latest > stuff ;) Fdisk will still work on a Win machine if booting from a Win9x startup floppy. I tend to prefer it to the cdrom/fixmbr method, because there's no fiddling with BIOS boot order and, at least for me, it's faster. (It seems to take my W2K cdrom quite a while to load all the necessary drivers, particularly since I'm running a RAID system and I have to manually get W2K to load the RAID driver image off a floppy.) Jud RAID driver image.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message