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Date:      Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:04:39 +0700
From:      Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Michael Klapheke <mklaphek@cedarpath.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Boot
Message-ID:  <201103212004.39503.erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
In-Reply-To: <61CB098E09920647A7B1F8D58189E3FD01212C259D@CP-SBS-1.cedarpath.local>
References:  <61CB098E09920647A7B1F8D58189E3FD01212C259D@CP-SBS-1.cedarpath.local>

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Hi,

you have a bootmanager installed.

On Monday 21 March 2011 19:48:27 Michael Klapheke wrote:
> Hi.  I know this subject has been addressed in other posts, but I cannot seem to get it to work.  I have inherited a FreeBSD server and I cannot get it to boot properly.  I read the articles on avoiding having to press the F1 key, and I tried to follow the suggestions (note, my disks are labeled "da0s1" etc.  instead of "ad0") as in the following:
> 

da are SCSI disks, ad are ATA disks.

> boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/da0
> 
> or even
> 
> fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/da0
> 

Just start sysinstall and write a plain mbr without a boot manager.

> Neither of these prevents the user from having to press the F1 key.

Of course not.

Erich



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