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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!nmia!gallup.cia-g.com!lithium From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Remove Boot Manager? Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 15:56:44 -0600 Organization: New Mexico Internet Access Lines: 24 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960616155530.21710A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> References: <31BB43CC.545D@ccnet.com> <31BCDBE2.1874@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gallup.cia-g.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <31BCDBE2.1874@www.play-hookey.com> The easiest way to remove the MBR and have the system go right to FreeBSD's Boot: prompt is to boot up with a dos floppy with fdisk.exe on it and type fdisk /mbr On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Ken Bigelow wrote: > 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. - Steve - Systems Manager - Community Internet Access - http://www.cia-g.com