Re: How to disable the boot0 menu?

[Joseph Garcia <bsd_usr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Schlesinger wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've installed only DFly on my notebook as the onliest OS, so I have no need 
> for the boot0 menu.
>
> I've tried to minimize the time it's appearing by doing a "boot0cfg -s 1 -t 1 
> ad0"  (-t 0 didn't work). -t is the number of ticks and there should be circa 
> 18.2 ticks per second, according to the handbook, but with -t 1 the boot0 
> menu appears longer.
>
> I there a way to disable the appearance of the boot0 menu completely?
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas

So basically, you want to get rid of BootEasy (the boot manager that 
prompts you for an OS), right?

I may have done this before on DragonFlyBSD, or maybe I'm thinking of 
FreeBSD. Honestly, I can't say for sure I did it under DrgaonFlyBSD but 
I might have. I just can't remember since all these BSD's are starting 
to become one in my head.

Anyway, I can say for sure that I have done it in FreeBSD but it was a 
loooong time ago. Here's a link to the information that I used to do it 
in FreeBSD:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html

If I remember correctly, I used boot1 instead of boot0 on the MBR.

I don't know if this will work with DragonFlyBSD. Maybe someone can 
chime in with more in-depth knowledge of DragonFlyBSD's bootloader and 
let us know if this won't hose the boot-up process.

Good luck, and remember this could make your system not boot. Don't 
shoot me if it screws up. ;)

Joey