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Michael Costa wrote:

> I installed FreeBSD on a HDD and i decided i wanted to use it for a dos HDD
> but it still gives me the   F1  dos
>                F?        promt when i turn it on. How do I get rid of it?  I
> formatted the HDD with the unconditional option and it still doesn't work.
>                                         Thanks
>                                             Mike

In DOS do:

fdisk/mbr

This replaces the master boot record with a generic dos boot record.