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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 1995 17:59:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        jgr6969@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.G. Rodriguez)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Boot Manager
Message-ID:  <199503280159.RAA00904@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <9503280035.AA12469@ultb.isc.rit.edu> from "J.G. Rodriguez" at Mar 27, 95 07:35:36 pm

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> 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.

Use the MSDOS command
	FDISK /MBR

> 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.
Did you use the "disk_manager" software which came with the drive ?

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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