Re: Undo MBR

2003-09-04 Thread Joshua Oreman
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: > > > > > >

Re: Undo MBR

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Murphy
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

Re: Undo MBR

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Murphy
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

Re: Undo MBR

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Murphy
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

Re: Undo MBR

2003-09-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > 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

Re: Undo MBR

2003-09-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
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

Re: Undo MBR

2003-09-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
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

Re: Undo MBR

2003-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
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

Re: Undo MBR

2003-09-03 Thread David Kelly
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'