Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:17:10 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Tobias Roth <randomiadgf@fsck.ch> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to remove bootloader from a slice Message-ID: <ngwtng2n7d.tng@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050724174833.6777bfe2.randomiadgf@fsck.ch> (Tobias Roth's message of "Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:48:33 %2B0200") References: <20050724174833.6777bfe2.randomiadgf@fsck.ch>
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Tobias Roth <randomiadgf@fsck.ch> writes: > I am trying to remove a bootloader accidentally installed on ad0s3. > I tried overwriting it with fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 -3 but that didn't > have any effect. And anyway, I'd rather see it gone than > replaced with the FreeBSD bootloader. > boot0cfg doesn't seem to be able to act on slices alone. That leaves > dd, but as I am not sure how to do it correctly, I thought I'd rather > ask first. Check out the bsdlabel manpage (esp. -B and -B example). BTW, your "fdisk" command only affected the MBR and the -3 was ignored because you didn't tell it what to do with the partition table's third entry.
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