Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:28:20 -0400 From: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot manager Message-ID: <200507181928.33427.nb_root@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <000601c58bf0$157b6f30$6600a8c0@monster> References: <000601c58bf0$157b6f30$6600a8c0@monster>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On July 18, 2005 07:26 pm, Jerry Tarwid wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD on a box with Windows XP & I installed the FreeBSD > Boot manager. My question is how do I get rid of the boot manager??? I want > to uninstall FreeBSD & uninstall the boot manager so my computer will just > boot windows. I have 2 SATA hard drives, drive 1 has XP on it & drive 2 has > XP 64 & FreeBSD. I'm using NTFS on both Windows drives. When I installed > FreeBSD I installed the boot manager & was able to boot into all 3 os's. I > uninstalled FreeBSD & booted to recovery console & did "fixboot" & "fixmbr" > & when I tried to boot up I get "boot failure" like the FreeBSD boot > manager left something in the mbr that fixmbr can't overwrite??? I > re-installed FreeBSD with the boot manager & am able to boot to all 3 os's > once again. Can anyone help me??? > > Thanks, > > jtarwid@wi.rr.com > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Try from the command console (in XP or bootable disk): "fdisk /mbr" -- FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #4: Sat Jul 16 11:11:37 EDT 2005 root@clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A PGP? : http://66.130.198.54:8081/security/nb_root.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC3Dshz38ton5LGeIRAvJcAJ0Q4GyUbsgTtJT1Fk7eYMD2tMndKACfbGyQ MqC8mSd0lwyoOqF8ta26Myc= =52YW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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