boot code (was Re: ASCII art boot menu is slow?)

[Mark Cullen <mark.cullen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> 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

That makes sense. I just got around to googling the command you 
suggested before and people were saying it had to be:

fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr $dev

So I did that, and looking at the manpage it's equivilent to just -B as 
the -b option defaults to /boot/mbr anyway. It asked me if I wanted to 
change the boot code, so I said yes. It then proceeded to ask me if I 
wanted to write a new partition table, I said no to that one. Sound 
about right?

I shall reboot and keep my fingers crossed as soon as the machine 
finishes copying stuff from over from NFS.

> > 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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