Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Jerry McAllister wrote:

>On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:06:51PM -0700, Jim Priovolos wrote:
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>>How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager?
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>>My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room 
>>for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the 
>>boot manager that asks if I want to start in Windows or BSD. I'd like to 
>>get rid of that until I can figure out how to shrink the partition.
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>You need some sort of boot manager.   You can figure out how to write
>the MS one back there or just leave the FreeBSD MBR there or find
>another favorite one to put there.    The only problem with the 
>FreeBSD MBR is that it displays ??? for bootable NTFS file systems 
>rather than something that looks like NTFS or Win-XP, or whatever.
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At least as of 6.2 (possibly earlier) the boot manager display "DOS" 
(and also gets rid of some annoying beeps that arrived with 5.X series).

Obviously, you need to re-write any MBRs written under 5.X to get the 
6.X MBR.  Simply upgrading will not do that.

--Alex