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Date:      Tue, 09 Jul 2002 11:56:34 -0700
From:      Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net>
To:        Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?= <moeller@bsdsi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot Manager Blues
Message-ID:  <3D2B31E2.284A8B5A@charter.net>
References:  <3D2B2EB2.80111CE5@charter.net> <20020709204716.A16345@piranha.bsdsi.com>

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Don't have an OS/2 "system", just a boot manager.  Would it work with either
BSD or OS/2?

Pb

Martin Möller wrote:

> 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).
> >
> > 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".
> >
> > It's lovely to have two boot managers, but it's an unnecessary step in
> > the booting process.
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > Pb
> >
> >
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>
> - --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Martin Möller <mm@bsdsi.com>
> http://www.bsdsi.com/
>
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