Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager
When I installed, I created a FreeBSD slice occupying my entire HD. I then created partitions occupying, together, my entire HD. In other words, I never intend to install another OS. I should have chosen *not* to install a boot manager, but I did. Is there anyway now to remove the boot manager, or at least set it to automatically select an entry (F1: FreeBSD being the only entry)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 05:26:09PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: - When I installed, I created a FreeBSD slice occupying my entire HD. I - then created partitions occupying, together, my entire HD. In other - words, I never intend to install another OS. I should have chosen - *not* to install a boot manager, but I did. The boot manager doesn't hurt anything just being there. It takes up only a sector that will not be used by anything else. - - Is there anyway now to remove the boot manager, or at least set it to - automatically select an entry (F1: FreeBSD being the only entry)? It does that automatically.It will always default to the last one that you selected. So, it you have booted once and selected F1:FreeBSD then that will automatically selected the next time unless you change it. jerry - ___ - freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list - http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions - To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: When I installed, I created a FreeBSD slice occupying my entire HD. I then created partitions occupying, together, my entire HD. In other words, I never intend to install another OS. I should have chosen *not* to install a boot manager, but I did. Is there anyway now to remove the boot manager, See the last part of the boot0cfg man page. More specifically, fdisk -B will do it. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:06:51PM -0700, Jim Priovolos wrote: How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the boot manager that asks if I want to start in Windows or BSD. I'd like to get rid of that until I can figure out how to shrink the partition. You need some sort of boot manager. You can figure out how to write the MS one back there or just leave the FreeBSD MBR there or find another favorite one to put there.The only problem with the FreeBSD MBR is that it displays ??? for bootable NTFS file systems rather than something that looks like NTFS or Win-XP, or whatever. jerry Thanks, Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager
- Original Message From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Priovolos [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:30:31 PM Subject: Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager You can boot the windows repair console and use fixmbr command from there. -Derek fixmbr can be used to remove the boot manager? I didn't see anything that appeared to be capable of doing that. At 08:06 PM 3/24/2007, Jim Priovolos wrote: How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the boot manager that asks if I want to start in Windows or BSD. I'd like to get rid of that until I can figure out how to shrink the partition. Thanks, Jim Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:06:51PM -0700, Jim Priovolos wrote: How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the boot manager that asks if I want to start in Windows or BSD. I'd like to get rid of that until I can figure out how to shrink the partition. You need some sort of boot manager. You can figure out how to write the MS one back there or just leave the FreeBSD MBR there or find another favorite one to put there.The only problem with the FreeBSD MBR is that it displays ??? for bootable NTFS file systems rather than something that looks like NTFS or Win-XP, or whatever. At least as of 6.2 (possibly earlier) the boot manager display DOS (and also gets rid of some annoying beeps that arrived with 5.X series). Obviously, you need to re-write any MBRs written under 5.X to get the 6.X MBR. Simply upgrading will not do that. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager
How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the boot manager that asks if I want to start in Windows or BSD. I'd like to get rid of that until I can figure out how to shrink the partition. Thanks, Jim Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager
You can boot the windows repair console and use fixmbr command from there. -Derek At 08:06 PM 3/24/2007, Jim Priovolos wrote: How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the boot manager that asks if I want to start in Windows or BSD. I'd like to get rid of that until I can figure out how to shrink the partition. Thanks, Jim Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
