From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 25 21:46:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975A616A400 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:46:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B25613C455 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:46:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [172.23.170.141] (helo=anti-virus02-08) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HVSa1-0000cg-HV; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:16:17 +0100 Received: from [62.31.10.181] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HVSa0-0003xf-PX; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:16:16 +0100 Message-ID: <46067620.4070004@dial.pipex.com> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:16:16 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061205 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister References: <614483.30734.qm@web56402.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20070325124739.GA35974@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070325124739.GA35974@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Jim Priovolos Subject: Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:46:14 -0000 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