Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:47:16 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_M=F6ller?= <moeller@bsdsi.com> To: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager Blues Message-ID: <20020709204716.A16345@piranha.bsdsi.com> In-Reply-To: <3D2B2EB2.80111CE5@charter.net>; from phbrown@charter.net on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:42:59AM -0700 References: <3D2B2EB2.80111CE5@charter.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Martin Möller <mm@bsdsi.com> http://www.bsdsi.com/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9Ky+zt/yBbDyXkoURAsiAAJwKvZrr2zt1hqAvifWc+89qGEXC5ACghgEs Qd5tiplfZvb3Edy1QhGVJpI= =42qz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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