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Subject: Re: change bootloader
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:13 pm, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > I installed the bootmng and now I have the "F1 FreeBSD" prompt at
> > boottime. This is not what I want though.
> > I want my disk to just boot into FreeBSD. I can't find the right option
> > in boot0cfg to change this behaviour of my harddisk.
> > Can I still change the F1 prompt into nothing? If so, how can this be
> > done?
>
> Take a look at the FAQs:
>
> [...]
> 3.9. Windows killed my boot manager! How do I get it back?
> [...]
> Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy again and go to the Custom installation menu
> item. Choose Partition. Select the drive which used to contain your boot
> manager (likely the first one) and when you come to the partition editor
> for it, as the very first thing (e.g. do not make any changes) select
> (W)rite. This will ask for confirmation, say yes, and when you get the Boot
> Manager selection prompt, be sure to select ``Boot Manager''. This will
> re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of the installation menu
> and reboot off the hard disk as normal. [...]

My reading of the OP is that this is where he is! but doesn't like it.

He should do as you suggest except choose the "Standard MBR" option.

Malcolm