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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
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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. ;-)