Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 11:42:59 -0700 From: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> To: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Boot Manager Blues Message-ID: <3D2B2EB2.80111CE5@charter.net>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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