Re: ASCII art boot menu is slow?

[Mark Cullen <mark.cullen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> On 21.10.2004, at 23:57, Mark Cullen wrote:
>
> > > > On the subject of booting, I don't suppose you know how to get rid of
> > > > the bootloader type thing? When I boot up it has like
> > > > F1  BSD
> > > > I've found boot0cfg which seems as though it 'installs' that, but I
> > > > can't see anything about actually removing it?
> > >
> > > Boot from a DOS bootdisk and run "fdisk /mbr" to clear that out.
> > > There's a way to do it using the BSD fdisk and boot0cfg, but I don't 
> > > recall how off the top of my head.  It's in the man pages for those 
> > > two, though.
> >
> > I have two different answers! Matt says I can't really get rid of it, 
> > but can install someone elses, and that I should just reduce the 
> > timeout if it's too long.
>
>
> Here comes the third:
>
> boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr
>
> we already carry a simple mbr (in comparison to the boot manager boot0) 
> which can be installed.
>
> cheers
>    simon

Thanks Simon. That's likely the one I was looking for. However, it's 
asking for a disk at the end so I run:

boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0

and it comes back at me with:

boot0cfg: /boot/mbr: unknown or incompatible boot code

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