From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 1:43: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764EB37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 01:43:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351CD43F3F for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 01:43:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h159h1Fu039658 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:43:01 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h159guLq039657 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:42:56 GMT Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:42:56 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where is the Boot Manager? Message-ID: <20030205094256.GB38913@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030204.205100.-301583.3.jhofstetter2@juno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030204.205100.-301583.3.jhofstetter2@juno.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.44 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:50:58PM -0500, John H Hofstetter wrote: > The reason I'm asking where the FreeBSD boot manager is because I need to > get rid of it, make it go away. This is not because I'm displeased with > FreeBSD as an operating system but due to the fact that I'm limited to a > 56k dial up and too broke to spend any money at this time on the very > reasonably priced CD set. This being the situation and a friend having > loaned me a Linux distribution, I opted to scrub, for now the FreeBSD > partition and load Linux. Upon scrubbing the non-DOS partition, the boot > manager still remains and it won't allow booting to Linux and appears to > be interfering with the Linux boot manager. For now I'm using the 30 day > demo of BootIt, and I'd like to resolve this boot manager issue before > the 30 days are up. I must say I'm impressed with what FreeBSD has to > offer and will try a serious full blown install some day. The FreeBSD boot manager resides entirely within the 512b boot block in sector 0 of the disk. You should be able to eliminate it be rewriting the 'Master Boot Record'. Under FreeBSD that's done by: # fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad0 where '/boot/mbr' contains a default MBR image. Similarly from an MS Win Dos command line you can run: > fdisk /mbr c: Under Linux, one way to do the equivalent is apparently: # lilo -i /boot/boot.b but you'll have to specify the drive to operate on via /etc/lilo.conf. At least, that's the sum of my vague recollection of doing this sort of thing a long time ago and my reading of the Linux man pages. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message