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From: mbianchi@swbell.net (Maurice R. Bianchi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing freeBSD bootmanager?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:35:52 GMT
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On 22 Jan 1997 03:51:19 GMT, wgentry@vt.edu (Miles Gentry) wrote:
>I'd like to remove the freeBSD bootmanager. freeBSD was installed on the
>second partition of a win95 machine, now the computer needs to be win95 only
>and they want the bootmanager removed. I dumped freeBSD and the whole
>partition it was on, but now I can't get rid of the bootmanager. Is there
>anyway to kill it completely, other than wiping the whole hard drive and
>starting over?
>
>thanks
>
Miles,
Reboot the PC with a WIN95 startup floppy diskette in a: , then enter
the command
fdisk /mbr
at the a:\ prompt. The "fdisk /mbr" command will install the dos
(master) block record on the hard disk containing the dos active
partition, removing the FreeBSD bootmanager record.
mrb
Bianchi mbianchi@swbell.net
"Quality brings long term profits to any endeavor"