From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 14: 6:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from osgroup.com (unknown [38.229.41.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6626514D00 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:06:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stan@osgroup.com) Received: from stan166 ([38.229.41.237]) by osgroup.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA22705 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:54:57 -0500 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:07:39 -0500 Message-ID: <01BEB35B.5D0001F0.stan@osgroup.com> From: Constantine Shkolnyy Reply-To: "stan@osgroup.com" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: I just don't know... Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:07:38 -0500 Organization: Ashley Laurent, Inc. X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > How to actually GET RID of the boot manager... Have decided that > > sharing > > disk space with FBSD on my Windoze machine just isn't working out, and > > FBSD should get its own box. Now that it's been moved to its own > > machine, I've removed FBSD from my Windows machine, but still have the > > boot manager loading. I tried SYS'ing from a bootup floppy, but that > > didn't do it. Please help! :) > > C:\> fdisk /mbr But where is the original boot sector stored? Wouldn't it be more reliable to copy it back? fdisk will copy a standard boot sector and sometimes it may be different from the original one. It is not safe to suggest such a use of fdisk in general case, without prior knowing of his configuration. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message