Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:16:33 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1018566993.77f10e@mired.org> To: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> Cc: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me! Message-ID: <15535.33233.213419.579879@guru.mired.org> 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>
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In <200204062154.05155@.perimeter.co.za>, Patrick O'Reilly <bsd@perimeter.co.za> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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