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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:47:16 +0200
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_M=F6ller?= <moeller@bsdsi.com>
To:        Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot Manager Blues
Message-ID:  <20020709204716.A16345@piranha.bsdsi.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D2B2EB2.80111CE5@charter.net>; from phbrown@charter.net on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:42:59AM -0700
References:  <3D2B2EB2.80111CE5@charter.net>

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Boot the OS/2 system and do a

fdisk /newmbr

Good luck,
Martin

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:42:59 -0700, Parker Brown wrote:
> Just installed BSD 4.6 and, although I requested that the MBR not be
> touched, it did it anyway.  While this is nothing new, I've now got two
> (2) boot managers on my system, and I wish to keep the original one (an
> OS/2 boot manager).
>=20
> Usually, I can fix this under BSD by using "fdisk -a" and changing the
> active partition.  For some reason, even though both BSD and Windows 98
> show the OS/2 boot manager partition to be the active one, I still get
> the old "F1  DOS,  F2 ??,  F3 FreeBSD,  and finally  Default F2".
>=20
> It's lovely to have two boot managers, but it's an unnecessary step in
> the booting process.
>=20
> Can anybody help me get rid of the BSD boot manager?  This really is
> strange, because, apparently, the hard drive's MBR does point to the
> OS/2 partition, but BSD speaks up first, anyway!
>=20
> Pb
>=20
>=20
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Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen
Martin M=F6ller <mm@bsdsi.com>
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