[svlug] Boot program

[Reginald B. Charney]

You can use the standard DOS FDISK utility and run it with the
undocumented option MBR:

fdisk -mbr

This should rewrite a "standard" MS boot record.

Reg.

Jonathan Jefferies wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone know what boot manager  comes with
> FreeBSD?  I have a friend who has gotten himself
> stuck trying to install FreeBSD and failing to
> get his main drive (scsi) partitioned and
> formatted b properly.  Now he
> tells me he is having problems getting NT
> re-installed so he can get back to square
> one.  Tells me he has reinstalled NT but
> the FreeBSD boot manager is still in place.
>
> So - and I've only heard about this system -
> what is the smoothest way to remove the
> FreeBSD bootmanager.  And is it the same
> code as lilo - which is what I would suspect.?
>
> Another way to ask the same thing is
> "what software will re-write the MBR?"
>
> Soon as he learns he can regain control of his
> machine, I'll introduce him to Linux.
>
> Jonathan
> <jonathanj at allant.com>
>
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