Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:20:10 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: change bootloader Message-ID: <200501242120.10665.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20050124054331.GA4104@oliverfuchs.onlinehome.de> References: <20050124053350.GA7552@nagual.st> <20050124054331.GA4104@oliverfuchs.onlinehome.de>
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:13 pm, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > I installed the bootmng and now I have the "F1 FreeBSD" prompt at > > boottime. This is not what I want though. > > I want my disk to just boot into FreeBSD. I can't find the right option > > in boot0cfg to change this behaviour of my harddisk. > > Can I still change the F1 prompt into nothing? If so, how can this be > > done? > > Take a look at the FAQs: > > [...] > 3.9. Windows killed my boot manager! How do I get it back? > [...] > Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy again and go to the Custom installation menu > item. Choose Partition. Select the drive which used to contain your boot > manager (likely the first one) and when you come to the partition editor > for it, as the very first thing (e.g. do not make any changes) select > (W)rite. This will ask for confirmation, say yes, and when you get the Boot > Manager selection prompt, be sure to select ``Boot Manager''. This will > re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of the installation menu > and reboot off the hard disk as normal. [...] My reading of the OP is that this is where he is! but doesn't like it. He should do as you suggest except choose the "Standard MBR" option. Malcolm
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