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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


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