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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:46:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      Thomas Good <tomg@nrnet.org>
To:        Jeff <jlr@soltec.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How do I get rid of boot manager?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.981202084542.428B-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <199812021339.HAA20882@photon.soltec.net>

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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Jeff wrote:

> Question, please:  A while back, on my multi boot sys, which is Win 
> 9x/NT 4.0 and FreeBSD 2.2.7 I believe I came up with a virus.  One 
> morning while  getting on the PC I noticed my ONLY option at the 
> boot prompt was F1 to go to DOS, no more F5 to go to FreeBSD.  
> My question is, How can I get rid of boot easy option, the MBR and 
> start over again, without destroying the functional system of Win 
> 9x/NT4.0, and then re-install?  It seems I remember a DOS 
> command (I have also the complete DOS 6.22 on c:\) like format 
> /mbr

Close...I booted with a dos disk and ran:  fdisk /mbr.
This will do it on dos boxes, not sure about win95...although its
really dos 7.0.

Good luck!

> The problem is though, and I admit my inabilities here readily, I 
> don't want to wipe out the whole MBR and lose both my current 
> sys functionality.  I am assuming most of you are already way out 
> in front of me on this, and most of what I'm saying is probably 
> redundant & bores you to tears. :)
> 
> I would sure appreciate any help and substantive advice.
> 
> Jeff Rogers
> jlr@soltec.net
> 
> 
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 Cheers,
 Tom

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