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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: removing boot manager?
To: tkelley@cy.com (Tim M. Kelley)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:45:32 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199601181521.KAA23124@cy.com> from "Tim M. Kelley" at Jan 18, 96 09:20:09 am
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> How can I remove the boot manager installed during the FreeBSD 2.1R
> installation besides using FDISK? I asked this question here before and was
> told to use
>     FDISK /MBR
> Unfortunately, for reasons I don't fully comprehend, whenever I try to run
> FDISK, the program returns the message: 
>     No Hard Drives installed!

Did you boot from a floppy or from the hard drive?

Most likely you have some type of disk translation/LBA redirector on
the IDE drive (like OnTrack 6.x or 7.x).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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