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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to uninstall Freebsd with NT Date: 21 Feb 1996 23:18:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4gg982$l8t@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1996Feb20.214227.17578@schbbs.mot.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 ronf@phx.sectel.mot.com (Ron Feigen) writes: > I installed NT after I had installed FreeBSD. So when I > boot I get FreeBSD's loader then NT's (if I choose DOS). > I deleted my FreeBSD partition and want to get rid of the > FreeBSD boot loader but how? fdisk /mbr will put back a DOS > mbr. I still need to run the NT loader. Suggestions? fdisk /mbr will install a ``generic'' boot loader. This is just a simple thingy, looking at the end of itself in the expectation of seeing a partition table over there, look if there's a partition marked active, and if so, load the first sector of this partition over to where it has just been residing itself (0:0x7c00). It then starts it. In your case, it would then start the NT loader, just like booteasy does. (And the NT loader will look around to see a bootable partition, load its first sector over onto where it has just been residing itself, ... Hopefully, you'll end up with something that turns out to be an operating system some day. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)