Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:04:39 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Michael Klapheke <mklaphek@cedarpath.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Message-ID: <201103212004.39503.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <61CB098E09920647A7B1F8D58189E3FD01212C259D@CP-SBS-1.cedarpath.local> References: <61CB098E09920647A7B1F8D58189E3FD01212C259D@CP-SBS-1.cedarpath.local>
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Hi, you have a bootmanager installed. On Monday 21 March 2011 19:48:27 Michael Klapheke wrote: > Hi. I know this subject has been addressed in other posts, but I cannot seem to get it to work. I have inherited a FreeBSD server and I cannot get it to boot properly. I read the articles on avoiding having to press the F1 key, and I tried to follow the suggestions (note, my disks are labeled "da0s1" etc. instead of "ad0") as in the following: > da are SCSI disks, ad are ATA disks. > boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/da0 > > or even > > fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/da0 > Just start sysinstall and write a plain mbr without a boot manager. > Neither of these prevents the user from having to press the F1 key. Of course not. Erich
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