Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:33:07 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Dusty Schnabel <dusty_s@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remove Boot Manager Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004212324290.18268-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <39005FA00000AE3A@smtp.visto.com> (added by administrator@visto.com)
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Dusty Schnabel wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > I need to know how to remove the boot manager from my system that > freeBSD setup. I have two HDs and now Win98 only will see my 1st HD > b/c of the boot manager I beleive. If you can help me please send your > reply to: > > Dusty Schnabel > dustys@visto.com > > Thank you. > Please configure your mailer to wrap lines at ~72 characters, or enter line breaks manually. Doing so will help us read your post :-) If you have Windows 98, drop to a DOS prompt and type fdisk /mbr to restore the default boot manager. Note that this will boot the designated "ACTIVE" primary partition on your first drive. One operating system will certainly be unbootable. In a FreeBSD system, you can run /stand/sysinstall, go to post-install config menu, fdisk, and select the hard drive in question, and select "Standard Boot Manager" from the options (selecting "None" is not recommended :-). Selecting the standard MBR should be functionally equivalent to DOS fdisk, in the preceding paragraph. ** Hopefully, you won't have to do either one: In answer to your problem of Windows being able to see only the 1st HD, there are a couple possible reasons for this. Having FreeBSD's boot loader in the MBR is generally NOT such a reason. If you formatted the drive as "Dangerously dedicated", or if ALL the partitions on the drive are NON-DOS (i.e., FreeBSD), you obviously won't have any drive letters show up in Windows--and I think that's what you mean by Windows "not being able to see the drive". If that assumption is not correct, please explain what you originally meant. If the partitions are all DOS primaries, and one or more are not marked active, those partitions will not be recognized by Windows. If you made a mistake using FDisk, your partition table may be corrupt/invalid, in which case Windows might be confused and refuse to show drives. -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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