On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:58:38PM -0400 or thereabouts, Paul Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:38:04 -0400
> > Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Errr... That's a little excessive. The quick way to remove the
> > > FreeBSd boot manager and restore a standard MBR is:
> > >
> > >
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:38:04 -0400
Paul Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:11:25 +0100
> Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:00:30PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:13 pm, Paul Murphy wrote:
> > > > I
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:11:25 +0100
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:00:30PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:13 pm, Paul Murphy wrote:
> > > I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install
> > > I
> > > unwittin
Thanks for the replies.
> I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install I
[etc]
> So, if there is nothing to be lost, just try it out and see what
> happens. Smoke testing is a tried and true technique.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
> You kind of have to read the disk
> > Actually, the first dd sometimes fails, if the disk has never had
> > anything put on it. If so, just ignore it and go on with the fdisk.
> >
> > jerry
>
> If you have a bootable DOS disk with fdisk, you can clear the MBR without
> destroying partitions by executing:
>
> fdisk /mbr
Yo
On Thursday 04 September 2003 09:35 am, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install I
> > unwittingly installed a BootMgr entry for the second HDD (it will
> > just be a data disk, no need to boot from it).
> >
> > If I do 'dd if=/dev/zero
Hi,
> I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install I
> unwittingly installed a BootMgr entry for the second HDD (it will
> just be a data disk, no need to boot from it).
>
> If I do 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad2 count=15' will this "erase" the
> BootMgr or will I have to re
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:00:30PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:13 pm, Paul Murphy wrote:
> > I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install I
> > unwittingly installed a BootMgr entry for the second HDD (it will
> > just be a data disk, no need t
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:13 pm, Paul Murphy wrote:
> I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install I
> unwittingly installed a BootMgr entry for the second HDD (it will
> just be a data disk, no need to boot from it).
>
> If I do 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad2 count=15'