Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2020-07-07 Thread Gerald
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Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-08 Thread Gerald
On Thursday 08 April 2010 10:38:11 pm Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:10:49 -0400 (EDT), Gerald wrote: > > Stephen, How about MBRWORK. > > This little program runs from a floppy or pehaps fron a CD. > > I have found it very useful > > Gerald, you replied to me personally instead of t

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-08 Thread Bob McGowan
On 04/08/2010 05:38 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:10:49 -0400 (EDT), Gerald wrote: >> Stephen, How about MBRWORK. >> This little program runs from a floppy or pehaps fron a CD. >> I have found it very useful > > Gerald, you replied to me personally instead of the list. > Please

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:10:49 -0400 (EDT), Gerald wrote: > Stephen, How about MBRWORK. > This little program runs from a floppy or pehaps fron a CD. > I have found it very useful Gerald, you replied to me personally instead of the list. Please reply to the list. There is no Debian package that I co

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:25:37 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-04-07 18:21 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: >> I read the man page for install-mbr, and I can see how to eliminate >> the boot prompt, which I have done, but I couldn't find a way to >> suppress the MBR advertisement. The DOS/Wind

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-07 18:21 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > I read the man page for install-mbr, and I can see how to eliminate > the boot prompt, which I have done, but I couldn't find a way to > suppress the MBR advertisement. The DOS/Windows mbr program is > totally silent, a trick that I would like to

How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
I have been experimenting with the mbr package. (mbr is a dependency for the lilo package; so if you have lilo installed you have mbr package installed too.) I usually install lilo to the master boot record (boot=/dev/hda specified in /etc/lilo.conf). But in certain situations it is advantageous