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Date:      Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:11:12 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager
Message-ID:  <20090712021112.GB36558@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470907111426l70eeddffm741bef5d03cf6d7f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <b6c05a470907111426l70eeddffm741bef5d03cf6d7f@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 05:26:09PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:

-> When I installed, I created a FreeBSD slice occupying my entire HD.  I
-> then created partitions occupying, together, my entire HD.  In other
-> words, I never intend to install another OS.  I should have chosen
-> *not* to install a boot manager, but I did.

The boot manager doesn't hurt anything just being there.  It takes up
only a sector that will not be used by anything else.

-> 
-> Is there anyway now to remove the boot manager, or at least set it to
-> automatically select an entry ("F1: FreeBSD" being the only entry)?

It does that automatically.    It will always default to the last one 
that you selected.   So, it you have booted once and selected F1:FreeBSD
then that will automatically selected the next time unless you change it.

////jerry




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