ASCII art boot menu is slow?

[Mark Cullen]

Freddie Cash wrote:
On October 21, 2004 12:12 pm, 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.

I know during FreeBSD's install there's some option where you can 
install this menu, or a 'plain' one, or leave it alone. I usually 
installed this plain thing on machines that only had the one OS on it, 
so I didn't get the menu appear.

Will the fdisk /mbr thing work? I've used it before to get rid of things 
like lilo, but I always thought it just reinstalled some Windows style 
boot bits so that it'll boot Windows?

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