From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 21:59:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F2E150B1 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ibjoe@home.com) Received: from c392156-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com ([24.1.95.226]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990820045532.USIN8807.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c392156-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:55:32 -0700 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19990820045512.0073405c@mail> X-Sender: ibjoe@mail X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:55:12 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Joe Subject: Re: Boot manager Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> # disklabel -B wd0 didn't remove my boot manager. do i need to change the files /boot/boot[0,1,2] also? if so, where do i get them? i tried /stand/sysinstall but that was scary, i'm afraid i will trash my installation. thanks. Joe At 04:41 PM 8/13/99 -0500, you wrote: >I knew there was s simple way to do this :) > >Thanks Greg > >> Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 13 August 1999 at 13:56:08 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: >> > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Len Huppe wrote: >> > >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> Is there a way to remove the boot manager and/or have FreeBSD boot >> >> automatically without any user input? I have a system with boot manager >> >> installed and I don't want to deal with the boot manager. >> > >> > During installation, if you don't request a boot manager, the FreeBSD >> > partition automatically becomes the active partition. >> > >> > If you already have a boot-manager installed, you can remove it by >> > using DOS's: >> > >> > fdisk /mbr >> >> That doesn't remove it, it replaces it with Microsoft's boot sector. >> This requires Microsoft, of course. You can also write a new >> bootstrap with FreeBSD's disklabel command: >> >> # disklabel -B wd0 >> >> Greg >> -- >> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >> For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >> See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers >> finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message