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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!coconut!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news.pbi.net!news6.agis.net!agis!newspeer1.agis.net!agis!exca libur.flash.net!news-in.iadfw.net!usenet From: pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: F:? Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 13:07:28 -0600 Organization: IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <wXxHzo3qBWDa092yn@airmail.net> References: <K/YHzo3qB6bB092yn@airmail.net> <5fmck7$m04@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal06-25.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: Yarn + Yep + Yin + FTE + VSoup for OS/2 X-Moon-Phase: The Moon is a Waning Crescent (9.7987% of Full). X-OS2-System: The Operating System/2 Version is 3.00 Revision 8.250 X-OS2-System: 13 processes, 49 threads. Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36673 In article <5fmck7$m04@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>, brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) wrote: >In article <K/YHzo3qB6bB092yn@airmail.net>, > pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) writes: >> How can I remove FreeBSD's boot manager, the F:? prompt? >> >> I seem to have OS/2 bm, F:? and Lilo all installed, OS/2 bm and F:? >> seem to be both on the MBR, if that's possible. > >OS/2 uses its own partition. FreeBSD uses the MBR. Use "fdisk /mbr" >from DOS (undocumented) to rewrite the original record. I have heard of using "fdisk /mbr", my problem is I don't have DOS fdisk and OS/2's fdisk says "/mbr is an invalid command." > >-- >Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org> > <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk> >Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! -- Phil Crown pcrown@airmail.net http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/