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Subject: Re: FreeBSD doesn't even boot!
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Jorn Argelo wrote:

>You might want to consider installing a standard MBR during the installation 
>(so not the FreeBSD bootloader). Then only FreeBSD will boot if you have 
>selected the drive as the primary drive in the bios
>

Oh, that reminds me of another question.

I installed 5.3 on a Dell Inspiron 8200 (and am thoroughly pleased).

Can I change / remove the boot loader now, after I've done all this? I 
would basically like to get rid of it, so that it just boots into 
FreeBSD. There are no other OSs on here.