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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I restore my original DOS MBR??? Date: 23 May 1995 18:40:46 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3pta7e$roa@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <bgreen.35.2FBAA251@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au bgreen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bryan D. Green) writes: > I was going to install FreeBSD but then deceided against it till I get a > reliable backup made of my DOS drive. In the interim, how do I remove the > MBR manager that comes up to select the MBR you'd like to use. The only > MBR I have right now is my DOS one anyway and I have to push F1 to get > my machine going now. Can I get the manager off and have it go dirctly > to DOS again? The MBR manager *is* an MBR. The boot blocks for DOS and BSD are loaded subsequent to your boot choice. The DOS MBR that is installed by DOS is simply a redirect to the DOS boot block. As for how to remove the BSD MBR, I should tell you to RTFM because this is a FAQ. However, for the sake of sanity: c:\>fdisk /mbr > Next question, I have a 420MB IDE drive and would like to partition 100MB to > FreeBSD. Is there a way to do this and preserve my current drive. I have > the space free but I dread FDisking the drive and repartitioning then > restoring DOS in one of the partitions and BSD in the other. Or does BSD > take care of this on it's own? Any change to a partition will destroy the data on that partition. > Sorry, but when it comes to PC based UX machines I'm a newbie. > It's just not the same as those snazzy university HP's with Ultrix on > them. :) Ultrix on a HP? I'd like to see that! Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |