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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I REMOVE the FreeBSD boot manager? Date: 20 Jul 1996 19:32:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4src7i$nh@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31f105c5.87462336@news.vt.edu> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E gss@vt.edu (Gerry Stellenberg) wrote: > I had to install FreeBSD for a class last semester. Now that the > class is over, I find that I never boot into FreeBSD anymore. I want > to take FreeBSD off of my computer, but before I fdisk the drive, I > figured I'd better remove the FreeBSD boot manager. Since you've apparently got FreeBSD still bootable: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0 count=1 CAUTION! This will wipe out the entire fdisk table without a whisper. Do only do it if this is really your desire. (The drive looks `virgin' then to any subsequent installation tool.) Alternatively, ``fdisk -i /dev/rwd0'' should place a new bootstrap there, but leave the fdisk table intact. -- 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. ;-)