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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Remove Boot Manager?
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 19:37:22 -0700
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Allan W. Rose wrote:
> 
> How can you remove the FreeBSD boot manager??
> Boot from the boot floppy and select Novice Install (others may work; I 
haven't tried them yet). Without changing any partition info, select the 
"write partition info to disk now" option.

The second option for the MBR is "Standard." Select this and let FBSD 
write the new MBR. Remove the boot floppy and reboot normally. This 
should clear Boot Manager.

Ken