Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:16:16 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Jim Priovolos <jim1976us@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager Message-ID: <46067620.4070004@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20070325124739.GA35974@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <614483.30734.qm@web56402.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20070325124739.GA35974@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: >On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:06:51PM -0700, Jim Priovolos wrote: > > > >>How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? >> >>My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room >>for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the >>boot manager that asks if I want to start in Windows or BSD. I'd like to >>get rid of that until I can figure out how to shrink the partition. >> >> >> > >You need some sort of boot manager. You can figure out how to write >the MS one back there or just leave the FreeBSD MBR there or find >another favorite one to put there. The only problem with the >FreeBSD MBR is that it displays ??? for bootable NTFS file systems >rather than something that looks like NTFS or Win-XP, or whatever. > > At least as of 6.2 (possibly earlier) the boot manager display "DOS" (and also gets rid of some annoying beeps that arrived with 5.X series). Obviously, you need to re-write any MBRs written under 5.X to get the 6.X MBR. Simply upgrading will not do that. --Alex
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