From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 0:39:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86B38412F for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:39:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [208.219.234.56] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ba457835 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 03:38:39 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA00304; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 03:39:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: Ryan Thompson , John Cirillo Subject: Re: Boot manager Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 03:36:39 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00020803392900.00302@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Ryan Thompson wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, John Cirillo wrote: > > > 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 > > Yes, sorry... It's been awhile since I looked at that menu. You should > indeed choose Standard MBR instead of "None". > > In more detail: > > FDISK partition editor: > Don't alter any partitions :-) > Press "W" to commit > Confirm the dialogue that pops up > Select the appropriate boot record (Standard MBR), and confirm. > > You should see a dialog: > > "Wrote FDISK information out successfully" > > At that point, when you reboot, you should no longer have a boot > manager prompt on the second disk. > Thank you thank you thank you! That worked perfectly, although now for some odd reason, I see a picture of a hand holding a floppy labelled "Workbench" *headscratch* (joke). -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. If you were wondering, the answer is 42. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message