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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, C. J. Parker wrote:

> How do you recover from a failed install of FreeBSD, especially in 
> removing the boot manager from your system startup?

1)  Use FDISK and delete the FreeBSD partition.
2)  Run FDISK /MBR to remove the Boot Manager.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major