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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: 386BSD un-install... Message-ID: <1994Sep10.055758.22338@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <CvtsHJ.17K@hub.cs.jmu.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 05:57:58 GMT Lines: 27 pranav singh (singhp@tch1.cs.jmu.edu) wrote: : I have 386 bsd on a WIN-386 and now want to replace it with another : operating system (entire disk). How do I get the boot-record that : BSD installs off ? Apparantly it tries to locate the bsd kernel and : complains. : I also do not have a tiny-BSD floppy. Can I remove the BSD boot : record using a DOS utility ? : Any help is VERY welcome. The standard response is to boot a dos floppy and do a fdisk /mbr I've had problems with this not working for me. The Coherent mbr is rather tenacious and I've had problems with 386bsd as well. I normally use a DOS disk sector editor like Norton's to overwrite the first half dozen sectors with zero's. This is guaranteed to work but will blow away the partition table as well as the mbr so only do it if you don't want to save anything on the hard drive and want to start over from scratch or restore from a backup. Steve -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stever@babbage.cba.csuohio.edu "What's better than a free OS?" " A free OS with source." FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------