From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 1: 5:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fastlane.net (fastlane.net [209.197.224.10]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9F84150 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 01:05:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from john1.cirillo (jcirillo.fastlane.net [209.197.192.232]) by fastlane.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA00169; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 03:05:56 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 03:06:05 -0600 (CST) From: John Cirillo To: Ryan Thompson Subject: Re: Boot manager Cc: Walter Brameld , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wish I was lucky... You are right, that procedure is the one that writes out the changes. Only bad side-effect on my system is that after removing the boot manager from the second drive, the first boot manager on wd1 always boots Win98 regardless of if I press F1 or F5. It was easy to fix, but I'm back to square 1. So I am shelving this experiment for a while. I can live with 2 boot prompts for now, until I can maybe figure out what the deal is. Thanks for the correct procedure though. It will come in useful. John On 07-Feb-00 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. > > -- > Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin > SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com > #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 ---------------------------------- 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