From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 6 16:24:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5E537B422 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 16:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dleimbac@earthlink.net) Received: from 1Cust254.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net (1Cust254.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net [63.30.107.254]) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29047; Sun, 6 May 2001 16:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105062324.QAA29047@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 18:26:21 CDT From: dave To: Andrew Hesford , Darren Wyn Rees Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rem*ve bootloader Reply-To: dleimbac@earthlink.net X-Mailer: Spruce 0.6.5 for X11 w/smtpio 0.7.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Get GRUB! GRand Unified Bootloader... Its the best one I've seen/used. Dave On Sun, 6 May 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:20:24 -0500 > To: Darren Wyn Rees > From: Andrew Hesford > Subject: Re: rem*ve bootloader > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message