From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 13:00:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA28880 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:00:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA28848 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:00:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA07516; Fri, 26 Apr 96 20:00:12 GMT Message-Id: <9604262000.AA07516@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA198068811; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:00:12 -0600 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:00:12 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: tinker@safemail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604261914.TAA60916@garlic.com> (tinker@safemail.com) Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.1 boot failure after install = ("F1 . . . BSD" looping) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "William" == "William O Yates" writes: William> I do not NEED nor WANT any form of Boot-Manager, and William> I read the docs, and thought this would not install William> any... If you've got a copy of MS-DOS 6.2 handy, you can zap the boot manager by running FDISK.EXE /MBR So long as the FreeBSD slice is the only bootable slice on the disk, your system should just boot right up ... I hope. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/