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

[Mark Cullen]

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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