getting rid of disk selection on bootup
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Sep 28 19:33:03 PDT 2004
In the last episode (Sep 28), Sean McNeil said:
> I have -current installed and I get the following on bootup:
>
> F1 FreeBSD
> F5 Drive 1
>
> Default: F1
>
> I'd like to get rid of that and boot directly to the pitchfork dude.
> Is there a way to clear that out so it boots without the above
> selector?
That's boot0 (aka booteasy). What you want is an MBR that just chains
to the first active partition. Install it with "fdisk -B da0", or
whatever your devicename is. If you want boot0 back, run "boot0cfg -B
da0".
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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