Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 17:59:18 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: jgr6969@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.G. Rodriguez) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager Message-ID: <199503280159.RAA00904@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9503280035.AA12469@ultb.isc.rit.edu> from "J.G. Rodriguez" at Mar 27, 95 07:35:36 pm
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> I have a question concerning the boot manager which is written during the FreeBSD installation. How do you remove it from your hard drive? I had a > problem with the installation, and now would like to remove the boot > manager, but I haven't been able to find any documentation around that. Use the MSDOS command FDISK /MBR > Also, during the installation, it would not recognize the DOS partition on > my second IDE drive. I have a Western Digital 540Mb drive which I partitioned > into two 180Mb DOS drives leaving the last third for FreeBSD. The install- > ation program kept showing the whole drive as an unknown slice. I of course > tried to "tell" the installation program where DOS was. Now I'm > re-loading all of my software onto the hard drive. It wrote over the whole > thing. Any info you may have about this, I would appreciate. Did you use the "disk_manager" software which came with the drive ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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