From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 11:56:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C759B37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dc-mx03.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx03.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E8C43E31 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phbrown@charter.net) Received: from [66.214.73.163] (HELO charter.net) by dc-mx03.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 41683334; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:56:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2B31E2.284A8B5A@charter.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 11:56:34 -0700 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?= Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager Blues References: <3D2B2EB2.80111CE5@charter.net> <20020709204716.A16345@piranha.bsdsi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > - -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > Martin Möller > http://www.bsdsi.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message