From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 13 14:43: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mini.axcomp.com (mini.axcomp.com [207.250.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A8214F22 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from huppe@execpc.com) Received: from execpc.com ([207.250.237.65]) by mini.axcomp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA04025; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:56:02 -0500 Message-ID: <37B4911C.329295CB@execpc.com> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:41:49 -0500 From: Len Huppe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Jonathan Chen , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot manager References: <37B364B4.AAA682C9@execpc.com> <19990813114302.I456@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I knew there was s simple way to do this :) Thanks Greg > Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 13 August 1999 at 13:56:08 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Len Huppe wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> Is there a way to remove the boot manager and/or have FreeBSD boot > >> automatically without any user input? I have a system with boot manager > >> installed and I don't want to deal with the boot manager. > > > > During installation, if you don't request a boot manager, the FreeBSD > > partition automatically becomes the active partition. > > > > If you already have a boot-manager installed, you can remove it by > > using DOS's: > > > > fdisk /mbr > > That doesn't remove it, it replaces it with Microsoft's boot sector. > This requires Microsoft, of course. You can also write a new > bootstrap with FreeBSD's disklabel command: > > # disklabel -B wd0 > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message