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Date:      Mon, 07 Apr 2003 13:36:06 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Georgi Hristov <tweaky_81@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird boot loader
Message-ID:  <xzpn0j2czfd.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030406211955.28426.qmail@web9903.mail.yahoo.com> (Georgi Hristov's message of "Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:19:55 -0700 (PDT)")
References:  <20030406211955.28426.qmail@web9903.mail.yahoo.com>

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Georgi Hristov <tweaky_81@yahoo.com> writes:
> When I boot my system it does not boot automatically,
> but instead presents me with a choice of FreeBSD and
> Disk1 .... i don't have anything bootable on disk1 ..
> that's my home directory ... I just don't get it ...
> why does it do this ...it did not use to do it with
> 4.7 but now after the upgrade [I did a fresh install]
> it presents me with this option.... 

You selected "BootMgr" instead of "Standard" during installation.

> This is kind of a problem to me, because I cannot
> restart the system over the network, since it waits on
> somebody to push F1 [for FreeBSD] or F5[for Disc1].

It should automatically boot from the last-used disk after a few
seconds.  You can adjust the timeout with boot0cfg(8), or install a
"standard" MBR with fdisk(8).

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org



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