Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:42:56 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where is the Boot Manager? Message-ID: <20030205094256.GB38913@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20030204.205100.-301583.3.jhofstetter2@juno.com> References: <20030204.205100.-301583.3.jhofstetter2@juno.com>
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:50:58PM -0500, John H Hofstetter wrote:
> The reason I'm asking where the FreeBSD boot manager is because I need to
> get rid of it, make it go away. This is not because I'm displeased with
> FreeBSD as an operating system but due to the fact that I'm limited to a
> 56k dial up and too broke to spend any money at this time on the very
> reasonably priced CD set. This being the situation and a friend having
> loaned me a Linux distribution, I opted to scrub, for now the FreeBSD
> partition and load Linux. Upon scrubbing the non-DOS partition, the boot
> manager still remains and it won't allow booting to Linux and appears to
> be interfering with the Linux boot manager. For now I'm using the 30 day
> demo of BootIt, and I'd like to resolve this boot manager issue before
> the 30 days are up. I must say I'm impressed with what FreeBSD has to
> offer and will try a serious full blown install some day.
The FreeBSD boot manager resides entirely within the 512b boot block
in sector 0 of the disk. You should be able to eliminate it be
rewriting the 'Master Boot Record'. Under FreeBSD that's done by:
# fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad0
where '/boot/mbr' contains a default MBR image. Similarly from an MS
Win Dos command line you can run:
> fdisk /mbr c:
Under Linux, one way to do the equivalent is apparently:
# lilo -i /boot/boot.b
but you'll have to specify the drive to operate on via /etc/lilo.conf.
At least, that's the sum of my vague recollection of doing this sort
of thing a long time ago and my reading of the Linux man pages.
Cheers,
Matthew
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