From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 18: 5:36 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 CCA7B37B41A for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:05:31 -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 726A028B49; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:05:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:05:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Mike Meyer Cc: Patrick O'Reilly , mpd , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MBR, mfsroot.flp, handbook, and list fail me! [mwm] In-Reply-To: <15535.33233.213419.579879@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: <20020415205947.J24688-100000@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, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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 Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. Way-way-wait... I appreciate the assistance, Mike but one moment you gave an example that used "fdisk -B -b" and the one above is just "fdisk -B" so now I am growing unnecessarily confused. In a nutshell: * When I run "boot0cfg" alone, it seems to know about too much stuff. * I don't want a boot-manager at all. No F1, F2, etc menus please. :) * I want the "active partition" (wordchoice?) to be /dev/ad0s2a (FreeBSD). * I still want to be able to mount /dev/ad0s1 (MSDOS/Win98SR1). Thanks everyone, last post for today I'm pretty sure... -- 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