Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 23:12:20 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: dpenev@mail.bg, grant@thenetnow.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Remove Multiple Boot Message-ID: <20020922231220.3aa76f59.jud@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <20020923001044.GA438@hades.hell.gr> References: <002f01c2623e$220ae930$6501a8c0@grant> <20020922212014.GA239@earth.dpsca.bg> <20020923001044.GA438@hades.hell.gr>
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 03:10:44 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On 2002-09-22 21:20, "D. Penev" <dpenev@mail.bg> wrote: > > "Grant Peel" <grant@thenetnow.com>: > > >I have recently converted another PC to FreeBSD and no longer need > > >FreeBSD on my usual workstation. I am running Windows XP on the > > >workstation, and need to remove the (Easy Boot) boot manager and > > >have the conputer return to just automaticly booting to woindows. > > >Does anyone know how to remove it? > > > > Boot from XP cdrom, start Recovery Console and use fixmbr command. > > Fdisk that Giorgos suggest is no longer supported by XP. > > Thanks for correcting me. I haven't seen a Windows machine since a > long time ago, and certainly haven't got up to date with their latest > stuff ;) Fdisk will still work on a Win machine if booting from a Win9x startup floppy. I tend to prefer it to the cdrom/fixmbr method, because there's no fiddling with BIOS boot order and, at least for me, it's faster. (It seems to take my W2K cdrom quite a while to load all the necessary drivers, particularly since I'm running a RAID system and I have to manually get W2K to load the RAID driver image off a floppy.) Jud RAID driver image.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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