From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 11:48:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E47C37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:48:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.kgn-plus.de (kgn-plus.de [217.160.72.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DC743E3B for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:48:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from moeller@bsdsi.com) Received: from piranha.bsdsi.com (b075106.adsl.hansenet.de [62.109.75.106]) by server.kgn-plus.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g69ImVo05489; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:48:31 +0200 Received: (from moeller@localhost) by piranha.bsdsi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g69IlGmX028466; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:47:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: piranha.bsdsi.com: moeller set sender to moeller@bsdsi.com using -f Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:47:16 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_M=F6ller?= To: Parker Brown Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager Blues Message-ID: <20020709204716.A16345@piranha.bsdsi.com> References: <3D2B2EB2.80111CE5@charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D2B2EB2.80111CE5@charter.net>; from phbrown@charter.net on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:42:59AM -0700 Organization: BSD/Services Int. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE X-Location: Hamburg, Germany Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - -- Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen Martin M=F6ller http://www.bsdsi.com/ --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9Ky+zt/yBbDyXkoURAsiAAJwKvZrr2zt1hqAvifWc+89qGEXC5ACghgEs Qd5tiplfZvb3Edy1QhGVJpI= =42qz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message