From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 6 16:21:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4223837B422 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 16:21:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E9A46A93D; Sun, 6 May 2001 18:20:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:20:24 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Darren Wyn Rees Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rem*ve bootloader Message-ID: <20010506182024.A68288@cec.wustl.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from merlin@netlink.co.uk on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:29:17PM +0100 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:29:17PM +0100, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > How can I rem*ve the FreeBSD bootloader ? I seem to have > accidentally installed it and it's getting in the way. > > I'm trying to set up a multiboot HD with > FreeBSD/OpenBSD/LinuxDistro1/LinuxDistro2/NetBSD/Windows2000. > > I've got Windows2000/LinuxDistro1/OpenBSD working okay thus far. What is this "rem*ve"? Are you scared we will bite if you want to remove your bootloader? There is no way to remove your bootloader. You just have to overwrite it with another one. Which makes sense, if you think about it... removing one without installing another one leaves the disk unbootable. If you are thinking about replacing it with LILO, don't, because LILO is a horrible thing. If you need a Windows bootloader, you used to be able to run `fdisk /mbr` or something like that... I don't know about that nowadays. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message