From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 16:41: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc759.cs.msu.su (pc759.cs.msu.su [158.250.10.223]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A44137B502 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc759.cs.msu.su (uucp@localhost) by pc759.cs.msu.su (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id EAA39905; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 04:00:33 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from der@pc759.cs.msu.su) Received: from pc759.cs.msu.su (megagame.my.home [10.0.1.5]) by gateway.my.home (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21034; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:58:15 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from der@pc759.cs.msu.su) Message-ID: <39E5EED0.370125C0@pc759.cs.msu.su> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:03:12 +0300 From: Alexander Derevyanko X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS" Cc: FreeBSD.ORG!questions@pc759.cs.msu.su Subject: Re: Getting RID of the boot manager References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS" wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > 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? Boot from floppy, when it loads kernel say it to boot from another device. Of course, you change switch on secondary to be master or single ? > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message