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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.kth.se!eru.mt.luth.se!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!newsie.dmc.com!news.zipnet.net!usenet From: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: can not boot without a floppy Date: 1 May 1996 23:57:45 GMT Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4m8tpp$soe@news.zipnet.net> Reply-To: mi@ALDAN.algebra.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ip39-max1-bos.zipnet.net X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 On th eyet another FreeBSD machine I am setting-up (soon to become a www.video-collage.com, btw) I asked that both IDE hard-drives be entirely designated for FreeBSD without "being friendly to other OSes" (ther are not other OSes). Nobody ever asked me about a boot-manager, but now I can only boot using the install-floppy and typing wd(0,a)/kernel every time... How to set the MBR, so that it will work correctly? Thanks! -mi -- "Windows for dummies"