Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:05:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1018566993.77f10e@mired.org> Cc: Patrick O'Reilly <bsd@perimeter.co.za>, mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me! [mwm] Message-ID: <20020415205947.J24688-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <15535.33233.213419.579879@guru.mired.org>
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On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Mike Meyer wrote: > They install two different things. fdisk installs /dev/mbr, which should be the standard boot manager. boot0cfg installs /dev/boot0, which is the FreeBSD boot manager. If you're getting a different behavior, either 1) something is broken on your system, or 2) there's a serious bug somewhere. > > Peter's question (and mine too now :) is how to "demote" it to the standard mbr which just boots without pausing? Is the DOS Floppy route the only answer ? > No. I've used "fdisk -B da0" to do this on my SCSI-based systems. <mike > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. Way-way-wait... I appreciate the assistance, Mike but one moment you gave an example that used "fdisk -B -b" and the one above is just "fdisk -B" so now I am growing unnecessarily confused. In a nutshell: * When I run "boot0cfg" alone, it seems to know about too much stuff. * I don't want a boot-manager at all. No F1, F2, etc menus please. :) * I want the "active partition" (wordchoice?) to be /dev/ad0s2a (FreeBSD). * I still want to be able to mount /dev/ad0s1 (MSDOS/Win98SR1). Thanks everyone, last post for today I'm pretty sure... -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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