remove boot problem

HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER christopher.hollow at cgi.com
Wed Jan 28 11:16:08 PST 2004


If you have removed FreeBSD from your drive and would like to remove the 
FreeBSD bootloader, boot from a DOS floppy and run fdisk /mbr.  The /mbr 
switch will "re-MS" the Master Boot Record, removing the BSD bootloader.

Christopher Hollow

Jerry McAllister wrote:

>>Hello,
>>
>>    I recently installed Free BSD. I have two hard drives. I put it on the
>>second one. I took it of the drive because of some problems. Now when I boot
>>up a dos  message comes up saying the following:
>>
>>
>>F1 ???
>>F2 Disk 1
>>
>>Boot:F1
>>    
>>
>
>This is your MBR talking. 
>
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>>The last part I cant remember exactly what it says but it is something like
>>that. I would like to know if their is something I need to delete of edit to
>>stop this from coming up? Thank you.
>>    
>>
>
>I don't know in MS land.  In FreeBSD world check out boot0cfg(8) and
>related things.
>
>////jerry
>
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