Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:29:44 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Eric Rivas <ericr@sourmilk.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remove Boot Manger Message-ID: <20040116082944.GB55150@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040115212648.6075d019.ericr@sourmilk.net> References: <20040115212648.6075d019.ericr@sourmilk.net>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:26:48PM -0500, Eric Rivas wrote:
> I previously dual-booted Windows and FreeBSD with two hard disks,
> Windows on the first, FreeBSD on the seconds. After realizing that I
> never booted into Windows anymore, I swaped master/slave setting on the
> disk and fdisk, bsdlabel, etc. the previously Windows disk and now
> happily have a new disk for FreeBSD. The thing is now, I have the boot
> manager asking which OS to boot (F1 FreeBSD...). Being that I only
> have one OS on the system, I don't need it anymore. Anyone have any tip
> on how to get rid of the boot manager.
To get rid of the FreeBSD boot manager:
# fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad0
# fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad1
However, if you swap master and slave drives on your system, you need
to edit the /etc/fstab file first, or FreeBSD won't be able to find
it's filesystems and so won't boot. It is possible to fix /etc/fstab
after swapping the drives by various means, but it's usually quite an
involved process.
Cheers,
Matthew
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