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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Deleting BootManager? Date: 6 Feb 1996 09:34:09 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4f77ah$8g9@times.tfs.com> References: <4f57ne$2sm@klaava.helsinki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <4f57ne$2sm@klaava.helsinki.fi>, Janne P Kjellman <kjellman@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote: > I installed 2.1.0-RELEASE of FreeBSD and by mistake > got bootmanager on my HD. FreeBSD is only OS there, > so I want to get it of. Reinstall from scratch? 1/ BACK UP ANYTHING IMPORTANT 2/ fdisk /dev/r[sw]do | lp -P[your printer] (or write it all down) 3/ fdisk -i -u /dev/r[sw]d0 answer all the questiosn in the same way that th printed version shows you, EXACTLY.. make sure that the FreeBSD slice is marked active (flags = 0x80) 4/ fdisk /dev/r[sw]d0 compare the two fdisk SHOULD replace the boot manager with a pretty satandard (non interactive) bootblock. (unless of course it's changed recently :)..... if so do the same but insert 2A/ dd if=/dev/r[sw]d0 of=/hold.boot.block bs=512 count=1 2B/ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/r[sw]d0 bs=512 count=1 to ensure the bootblock is invalid before writing a new one.. to write back the original bootblock: (if step 4 seems to indicat a failure) 5/ dd if=/hold.boot.block of=/dev/r[sw]d0 bs=512 count=1