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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:31:18 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives
Message-ID:  <20021121163118.GA45955@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
In-Reply-To: <1037895820.9394.5.camel@natewks2.ad.newisys.com>
References:  <20021121051338.8D7FC27F@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> <1037895820.9394.5.camel@natewks2.ad.newisys.com>

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:23:40AM -0600, Andrew Y Ng wrote:

> I'm wondering if I can just get rid of the booter, I only have one OS on
> my FreeBSD drive, so it doesn't really make sense to have a booter with
> only one option, I don't know, but when I had NetBSD I didn't even have
> a booter. How do I get right of boot0?

    fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad0

(or da0 if you've got a SCSI hard drive).  Do make sure you make a
note of the output of 'fdisk -v' before you begin, in case of
accidents.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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