From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 17:58:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25B837B400 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:58:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3154328C47; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:58:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:58:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Dan Nelson Cc: Patrick O'Reilly , Mike Meyer , mpd , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me! [dnelson] In-Reply-To: <20020406195912.GA63541@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: <20020415205617.S24688-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > > 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 Since you are using "ad0" in the command line, must you first `cd /dev` then run this command? > 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 What does "chain to the bootblock of the first active partition" mean? Still somewhat floundering around, embee-are-ogically speaking, -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message