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From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:40:47 +0200
To: Viswas Nair <fysical@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Removing boot options and setting boot only to BSD
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Am 09.08.2006 um 05:48 schrieb Viswas Nair:

> I have FBSD 6 and Win XP on my machine. I would like to remove the  
> boot menu
> options that I get and set BSD to open default. How do I go about  
> doing this
> ? I intend to use Win XP very rarely and hence would want to  
> manually update
> the config files needed if I need to go to Win XP.

Just install the standard mbr using fdisk(8):

# fdisk -B ad0

Make sure that your FreeBSD slice is the only active slice, also  
using fdisk.

If you want to go back to FreeBSD's boot0, use boot0cfg(8):

# boot0cfg -B


Stefan

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