Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!netcad.enet.dec.com!rwallace From: rwallace@netcad.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How to remove the boot manager code Date: 6 NOV 96 21:46:53 EDT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 26 Message-ID: <55rijp$p3r$1@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: levers.enet.dec.com I installed FreeBSD for the first time the other day, including telling the setup program to install the boot manager. I later formated the partition to get rid of FreeBSD (I'll tackle it again later when I have more time to read up on it first). The problem I have now, is that I can not get rid of the boot manager code. I tried fdisk'ing and formating the disk, that didn't work. So then I found an option in the "install" program to remove the boot manager, but that didn't work either. Does anyone know how I can rid of the boot manager code? FWIW: I bought a CD with FreeBSD (I know my son hassled me for paying for a free OS), the "installation" program I refered to was on the disk, I don't have a clue if it is part of FreeBSD or if it was specific to this CD. I realize now that I need to do a lot of reading about FreeBSD before I tackle it again. Thanks for the help, --- Ray Wallace wallace_r@perfom.enet.dec.com ---