From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 16:35:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA15384 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:35:42 -0800 Received: from ultb.isc.rit.edu (ultb.isc.rit.edu [129.21.200.201]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA15376 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:35:38 -0800 Received: by ultb.isc.rit.edu (5.65/Config (11/03/93) (Postmaster DPMSYS)); id AA12469; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 19:35:36 -0500 Postmaster (dpmsys@rit.edu) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 19:35:36 -0500 From: jgr6969@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.G. Rodriguez) Message-Id: <9503280035.AA12469@ultb.isc.rit.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Boot Manager Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a question concerning the boot manager which is written during the FreeBSD installation. How do you remove it from your hard drive? I had a problem with the installation, and now would like to remove the boot manager, but I haven't been able to find any documentation around that. Also, during the installation, it would not recognize the DOS partition on my second IDE drive. I have a Western Digital 540Mb drive which I partitioned into two 180Mb DOS drives leaving the last third for FreeBSD. The install- ation program kept showing the whole drive as an unknown slice. I of course tried to "tell" the installation program where DOS was. Now I'm re-loading all of my software onto the hard drive. It wrote over the whole thing. Any info you may have about this, I would appreciate. I'm currently putting the installation of FreeBSD on the "back burner". If you have an answer as to how the DOS partition wasn't recognized and how to remove the boot manager I would appreciate it. Thank you in advance. Joe.