Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:24:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, forrie@forrie.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting RID of the boot manager Message-ID: <14820.45140.543641.966413@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <69491228@toto.iv>
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Rick Hamell writes: > > Once the boot manager is installed, how can we safely get rid of it. I > > can see where one might "dd" some garbage to the first 512 bytes on the > > sector, but I want to be sure :) > The best and quickest way I've found is fdisk /mbr with a DOS > disk... (one of the few things it can do right.) If you need a dos boot > disk check www.bootdisk.com You can get the same effect without a DOS disk with "fdisk -B /dev/.." while running freebsd. This also works if you manage to fry the boot sector of a Windows partition; just point it at the partition instead of the disk. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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