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From: Rob <racklin@moccasun.utc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: purging MBR
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:23:38 -0500
Organization: University of Tennessee
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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Yetter wrote:
> I recently deleted FreeBSD 2.1.5 from my system because I needed to
> re-install it, and doing the re-install OVER the previous install didn't
> work right. However, since in the first installation I installed the
> FreeBSD boot manager, I appear to be stuck with said boot manager. Is
> there any way I can erase the boot manager from my MBR without doing a
> low-level format or anything nasty like that?
>
> --Danger Mouse
> KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
If you got a dos partition, or a dos disk with msdos fdisk on it you might
want to try a:\fdisk /mbr which will restore the master boot record, then
from their you can do your stuff. Or you might be able to just set a diff
boot manager as bootable using fdisk (dos or freebsd's) ie the partiton
that the boot manager is in.
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