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From: rhiggins@earth.execpc.com (Ron Higgins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Boot Floppy problems followup
Date: 4 Jul 1996 11:25:33 -0500
Organization: Exec-PC -- (800)-EXECPC-1
Lines: 46
Message-ID: <4rgr9t$o9i@earth.alpha.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: earth-le1.execpc.com
First of all, I'd like to thank those people that took the time to
respond to my first message asking for help on getting my system to
boot from the FreeBSD boot floppy.
I never did get the system to boot from that floppy, but I did get
FreeBSD installed.
I ended up getting myself a copy of DOS, installing it, installing the
SCSI CD-ROM drivers that came with the Adaptec SCSI controller, and then
installing FreeBSD from the CD-ROM with "install.bat".
Now, that leads me into my next question. I had set up the 2.1gig HD
this way:
OS/2 Boot Manager - Primary 8meg?
DOS - Primary 100meg
DOS - Logical 100meg
OS/2 - Logical 300meg
OS/2 - Logical 600meg
and the rest I left unused for FreeBSD.
During the installation of FreeBSD, I partitioned the remaining HD space
into a 50meg volume for "/", a 150meg volume for swap, and the rest for
"/usr".
I told the system not to install a boot manager, since I was going to be
using OS/2's Boot Manager.
However, now when the system boots, I get a text screen with three
options, F2 for DOS, F3 for OS/2, and F4 for FreeBSD. If I don't choose
one in a couple of seconds, it boots whatever the default it.
If I choose F3 for OS/2, I am then presented with the OS/2 Boot Manager
screen.
I'd like to get rid of one of these boot managers, at this point, it
doesn't matter to me which one (although I think I'd like to keep the
OS/2 boot manager). So, how does one remove the FreeBSD boot manager (I
assume that is what I am seeing), keeping the rest of the system intact,
and using the OS/2 Boot Manager to boot either, DOS, OS/2, or FreeBSD?
Thanks,
--
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