From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 19:14:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A7714D17 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:14:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA20405; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:43:05 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA41935; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:43:04 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:43:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Len Huppe , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot manager Message-ID: <19990813114302.I456@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37B364B4.AAA682C9@execpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 01:56:08PM +1200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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