On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:00:30PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:13 pm, Paul Murphy wrote: > > I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install I > > unwittingly installed a BootMgr entry for the second HDD (it will > > just be a data disk, no need to boot from it). > > > > If I do 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad2 count=15' will this "erase" > > the BootMgr or will I have to redo Fdisk and etcetera. There is no > > data on the disk yet so this would be no hardship, but is there a > > "proper" way of doing what I want? > > > > > > Just to clarify, upon booting I get: > > > > F1 FreeBSD > > F5 Drive 1 > > > > but I just want to boot straight into FreeBSD, no "dual-boot". > > I don't know why you are fretting about this prompt and momentarily > pause in the boot process. Also think you are confused about the MBR > thing on the 2nd drive. > > The prompt above is coming from your first HD. If the BIOS did not know > about the 2nd drive the F5 entry would not be there and the FreeBSD F1 > entry would still be there. You could hide this prompt by retuning the > MBR to pause 0 or 1 seconds. Zero might be infinite. > > To eliminate the prompt, wipe the HD and reinstall "dangerously > dedicated." The result will be a disk which lacks the headers which > allows other x86 OS's to understand what/how the disk is used.
Errr... That's a little excessive. The quick way to remove the
FreeBSd boot manager and restore a standard MBR is:
# boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr ad0
(The OP might want to do that on his data disk ad2 as well). No
changes to the filesystems on those disks should be necessary.
Cheers,
Matthew
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