From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 10:58:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F0F037B4C5 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:58:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 57609 invoked by uid 100); 24 Nov 2000 18:58:26 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14878.47698.527801.429925@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 12:58:26 -0600 (CST) To: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.3R boot manager In-Reply-To: <69137104@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> types: > Hi...again > wd0 = DOS wd1=3.3R > Some &^%$*ing how, I installed a boot manager on *both* drives. At > boot-time I get F1 DOS F5 Freebsd. I hit F5, then I get another menu > F1 Freebsd F5 (I can't remember). I of course want to keep the wd0 > boot manager. How do I nuke the boot manager on wd1 -- or is the above > the correct behavior? Thanks... It's correct under the conditions you described, and some people prefer it (since you can then go back to the other drive). See the man page for fdisk to see how to install a standard boot manager on a drive, and boot0cfg for how to install the booteasy boot manager.