ASCII art boot menu is slow?

[Matthew Dillon]

: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?

    You can try all sorts of things, but I would recommend not trying to
    replace it.  If it works, stick with it.  If worse comes to worse you
    can just boot the ISO and use boot0cfg to put a working boot0 back on
    your HD.   But when playing with boot records there is always the 
    possibility of blowing things up badly and losing the disk, so be careful.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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