FreeBSD Boot
Erich Dollansky
erich at alogreentechnologies.com
Mon Mar 21 13:04:45 UTC 2011
Hi,
you have a bootmanager installed.
On Monday 21 March 2011 19:48:27 Michael Klapheke wrote:
> Hi. I know this subject has been addressed in other posts, but I cannot seem to get it to work. I have inherited a FreeBSD server and I cannot get it to boot properly. I read the articles on avoiding having to press the F1 key, and I tried to follow the suggestions (note, my disks are labeled "da0s1" etc. instead of "ad0") as in the following:
>
da are SCSI disks, ad are ATA disks.
> boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/da0
>
> or even
>
> fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/da0
>
Just start sysinstall and write a plain mbr without a boot manager.
> Neither of these prevents the user from having to press the F1 key.
Of course not.
Erich
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