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From: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Another boot mgr ?
Date: 2 Feb 1997 04:56:57 GMT
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In article <5cu3co$6fc@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
	j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley) wrote:
> 
>> I recall someone instructing someone else to just execute fdisk -i.
> 
> Right.
> 
>> Should we write new partition table? [n] 
>> bash# 
>> 
>> So, what do I need to change?
> 
> Say `aye' to the above final question.  You sure _want_ to write the
> new partition table (with the updated boot code).

Ok, I tried that (su'ed to root from current userid).  No change. 
I'm still getting asked every time to press F1 to load FBSD,  Default: F1.
Otherwise I can wait for it to timeout.

Any other suggestions?
 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 

Thanks again, 

Burton 

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Burton Sampley
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