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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!metro!metro!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!butch!lscruz!lscruz!not-for-mail From: alan@lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alan Strassberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Deleting BootManager? Date: 6 Feb 1996 21:25:27 -0800 Organization: Lockheed Martin, Santa Cruz, California Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4f9d47$lfb@lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com> References: <4f57ne$2sm@klaava.helsinki.fi> <31165809.795B@cs.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com In article <31165809.795B@cs.montana.edu>, Justin Ashworth <ashworth@cs.montana.edu> wrote: >Janne P Kjellman 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? > >From the DOS prompt type "fdisk /mbr" which will restore your master >boot record. I am assuming that you don't want to boot into your BSD >partition in the future or you have a boot floppy. While this is totally correct, it sure is lousy. Now, a boot floppy is required to boot the system. As a newcomer to FreeBSD, I think bootmanager is a real PITA(*) to an otherwise great O.S. And no source either. Okay, I feel better now. (*) Pain In The Anatomy alan -- alan@lmsc.lockheed.com