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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:55:12 -0700
From:      Joe <ibjoe@home.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot manager
Message-ID:  <2.2.32.19990820045512.0073405c@mail>

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>>   # disklabel -B wd0
didn't remove my boot manager.
do i need to change the files /boot/boot[0,1,2] also?
if so, where do i get them?
i tried /stand/sysinstall
but that was scary, i'm afraid i will trash my installation.
thanks.
Joe

At 04:41 PM 8/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I knew there was s simple way to do this :)
>
>Thanks Greg
>
>> Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 13 August 1999 at 13:56:08 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>> > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Len Huppe wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> Is there a way to remove the boot manager and/or have FreeBSD boot
>> >> automatically without any user input?  I have a system with boot manager
>> >> installed and I don't want to deal with the boot manager.
>> >
>> > During installation, if you don't request a boot manager, the FreeBSD
>> > partition automatically becomes the active partition.
>> >
>> > If you already have a boot-manager installed, you can remove it by
>> > using DOS's:
>> >
>> >       fdisk /mbr
>>
>> That doesn't remove it, it replaces it with Microsoft's boot sector.
>> This requires Microsoft, of course.  You can also write a new
>> bootstrap with FreeBSD's disklabel command:
>>
>>   # disklabel -B wd0
>>
>> Greg
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