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From: Bruce Olsen <bolsen@duosystems.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing Boot Manager
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 05:23:04 -0700
Organization: DUO Systems
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The Man in Black wrote:
> 
> I have looked for help elsewhere on this and didn't find anything so I am
> turning here. I installed freebsd on a partion with Win95. Everything
> worked fine. But now I got a dedicated computer for freebsd, so I want the
> one with win95 to be dedicated to win95. With Partion Magic I was able to
> get everyone DOS only..but the boot manager is still there just showing 1
> option for DOS. Well obviously this isn't needed so if some one could tell
> me how to remove this, it will be apreciated.

Boot up with s DOS floppy. Run "fdisk /mbr" and you'll be back in shape.
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