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Date:      Sun, 24 Aug 1997 16:01:12 -0400
From:      Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
To:        pdongre@opentech.stpn.soft.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: the F1..dos prompt
Message-ID:  <34009308.2781E494@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
References:  <1.5.4.32.19970823164547.00672668@pop.peakaccess.net> <34001B44.18422808@opentech.stpn.soft.net>

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Michael Costa wrote:

> I installed FreeBSD on a HDD and i decided i wanted to use it for a dos HDD
> but it still gives me the   F1  dos
>                F?        promt when i turn it on. How do I get rid of it?  I
> formatted the HDD with the unconditional option and it still doesn't work.
>                                         Thanks
>                                             Mike

In DOS do:

fdisk/mbr

This replaces the master boot record with a generic dos boot record.



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