Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 03:06:05 -0600 (CST) From: John Cirillo <jcirillo@fastlane.net> To: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> Cc: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot manager Message-ID: <XFMail.000208030605.jcirillo@fastlane.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002070236540.86435-100000@sasknow.com>
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I wish I was lucky... You are right, that procedure is the one that writes out the changes. Only bad side-effect on my system is that after removing the boot manager from the second drive, the first boot manager on wd1 always boots Win98 regardless of if I press F1 or F5. It was easy to fix, but I'm back to square 1. So I am shelving this experiment for a while. I can live with 2 boot prompts for now, until I can maybe figure out what the deal is. Thanks for the correct procedure though. It will come in useful. John On 07-Feb-00 Ryan Thompson wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, John Cirillo wrote: > >> I'd like to fix this double-prompting on my system too. >> I tried what I thought Ryan said to do but I'm missing a step somewhere? >> Here's what I did: >> /stand/sysinstall >> select Configure >> select Fdisk >> down-arrow to wd1, press spacebar. >> Now in FDISK Partition Editor >> press Q >> At Install Boot Manager screen, arrow down to None, press spacebar > > Yes, sorry... It's been awhile since I looked at that menu. You should > indeed choose Standard MBR instead of "None". > > In more detail: > > FDISK partition editor: > Don't alter any partitions :-) > Press "W" to commit > Confirm the dialogue that pops up > Select the appropriate boot record (Standard MBR), and confirm. > > You should see a dialog: > > "Wrote FDISK information out successfully" > > At that point, when you reboot, you should no longer have a boot > manager prompt on the second disk. > > -- > Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> 50% Owner, Sysadmin > SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com > #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 ---------------------------------- John Cirillo E-Mail: jcirillo@fastlane.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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