Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 02:34:34 -0600 (CST) From: John Cirillo <jcirillo@fastlane.net> To: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> Subject: Re: Boot manager Message-ID: <XFMail.000207023434.jcirillo@fastlane.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002070108230.85821-100000@sasknow.com>
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I'd like to fix this double-prompting on my system too. I tried what I thought Ryan said to do but I'm missing a step somewhere? Here's what I did: /stand/sysinstall select Configure select Fdisk down-arrow to wd1, press spacebar. Now in FDISK Partition Editor press Q At Install Boot Manager screen, arrow down to None, press spacebar press Enter for OK Back at Select Drive(s) screen It says select OK or Cancel to leave this screen. OK is highlighted, I press OK Back to FreeBSD Configuration menu. I select Exit, as there doesn't seem a more appropriate selection. Back at /stand/sysinstall main menu. What to do? Where do I commit, or have I already? I press Exit Install. Now back at shell prompt. I reboot, still get two separate boot selections, one after the other. I also tried selecting Standard MBR instead of None, suspecting that None really doesn't touch the boot record at all. But either way nothing changed. It looks like it didn't write any changes to the MBR at all. So the question is what is the step I missed? Thanks in advance, John On 07-Feb-00 Ryan Thompson wrote: > On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: > >> Whilst setting up FreeBSD on my second drive, I skillfully managed to >> install the boot manager on both drives. Now I get double prompted >> for the drive from which I wish to boot. >> >> Could someone tell me how to skillfully uninstall the danged thing >> from the second (FreeBSD) drive? >> >> Thanks > > Sure. Skillfully run /stand/sysinstall, post-install config, fdisk. > Select second drive, don't make any changes to the partition layouts, and, > when prompted for a boot manager, pick NONE, and make sure you commit the > changes from the menu. > > -- > Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> 50% Owner, Sysadmin > SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com > #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- John Cirillo E-Mail: jcirillo@fastlane.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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