From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 18:11:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B2A16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:11:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D272E43D41 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:11:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0DIEtda031455; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:14:55 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j0DIEtco031454; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:14:55 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:14:55 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Ben Salem Message-ID: <20050113181454.GA28303@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050113171743.15482.qmail@web61310.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050113171743.15482.qmail@web61310.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing the boot manager from a drive (2nd drive) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:11:48 -0000 --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:17:43AM -0800, Ben Salem wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD on a second hard drive, co-existing with > Windows on the first. > > Everything is ok, but I accidentally installed two boot mgrs, one on > the first, which is what I want, and one on the FBSD drive. Now when > I boot up, I have to select from two boot mgrs. > > trying to remove it from sysinstall by installing a "standard" boot > mgr only gives me error messages. > > There has to be a way around this. I've searched the docs but haven't > found anything sepecifically pretaining to this issue. You don't say what version you're running, but I'm guessing it's 5.x. If that's the case, you can't overwrite the boot manager while using the disk because that might modify the partition table and that's not allowed. You can disable this feature temporarily with: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 Be warned that this allows you to do all sorts of damage to your system so be careful. -- Brooks --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB5rqeXY6L6fI4GtQRAsQ0AJ0feeIF9yr4HnBY1dliFw0CqwPt6ACfT+cc oDpSgCg4xO57Hz3F94LGt40= =2Vl9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L--