Re: ASCII art boot menu is slow?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22.10.2004, at 12:20, Simon 'corecode' Schubert 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

It was too soon, obviously. This is wrong.

You, of course, need to do it the fdisk /mbr way:

fdisk -B $dev

> we already carry a simple mbr (in comparison to the boot manager 
> boot0) which can be installed.

and, as we learned, needs to be written with another tool :)

cheers
  simon

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