From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 6 11:59:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C39237B419 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 11:59:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g36JxCmG009772; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:59:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g36JxCfU009771; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:59:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:59:12 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: Mike Meyer , Peter Leftwich , mpd , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me! Message-ID: <20020406195912.GA63541@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020405231938.A16857@rochester.rr.com> <20020406003149.D68445-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <15534.35499.959649.111092@guru.mired.org> <200204062154.05155@.perimeter.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200204062154.05155@.perimeter.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Apr 06), Patrick O'Reilly said: > On Sat 06 Apr 02 07:42, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > On FreeBSD, the equivalent of "fdisk /mbr" is "fdisk -B", or maybe > > "fdisk -B ad0". > > > > Mike, > > I must beg to differ : I have recently been trying to get the same > thing done. I can confirm that "fdisk -B ad0" is safe, as is "boot0cfg > -B", but these install the BSD boot manager, which insists on offereing > you a menu during the boot process. > > Peter's question (and mine too now :) is how to "demote" it to the > standard mbr which just boots without pausing? fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad0 will put a "dumb" mbr on that only knows how to chain to the bootblock of the first active partition. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message