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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Deleting the Boot-Manager
Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:03:42 +0100
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Andreas Kohout <shanee@rabbit.augusta.de> wrote:

> Now I will change the two disk to bekome the
>root-partition to the first disk and can remove the boot-manager.
>
>But how? (not change the disk :-) 

By installing a regular boot block.  I'm not sure whether you could
do this with /stand/sysinstall yet.

>I know I must compile the kernel to start on sd0. 

You know too much. :-)  You don't need to recompile.

>If I turn on my system FreeBSD should start (I don't need any other OS)

If you don't need any other o/s, it's perhaps best to dedicate the
entire disk to FreeBSD.  If you can, backup that disk, relabel it,
and restore from tape.

I'm not sure if DOS' ``fdisk /mbr'' would help you, perhaps you could
write down the figures, re-install the original boot block, and then
restore the location of the FreeBSD "slice".
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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