From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 6 15:17: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0042B37B449 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 15:16:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12579 invoked by uid 100); 6 Apr 2002 23:16:33 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15535.33233.213419.579879@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:16:33 -0600 To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: Peter Leftwich , mpd , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me! In-Reply-To: <200204062154.05155@.perimeter.co.za> 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) 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 <200204062154.05155@.perimeter.co.za>, Patrick O'Reilly typed: > 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". > 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. They install two different things. fdisk installs /dev/mbr, which should be the standard boot manager. boot0cfg installs /dev/boot0, which is the FreeBSD boot manager. If you're getting a different behavior, either 1) something is broken on your system, or 2) there's a serious bug somewhere. > Peter's question (and mine too now :) is how to "demote" it to the > standard mbr which just boots without pausing? > > Is the DOS Floppy route the only answer ? No. I've used "fdisk -B da0" to do this on my SCSI-based systems. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message