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

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Subject: Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:25:37 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1287129746.1654901270657281956.JavaMail.root@md01.wow.synacor.com> (Stephen Powell's message of "Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:21:21 -0400 (EDT)")
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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 teach this program.  Does
> anyone know of a way to accomplish this?

I haven't looked at this in detail, but probably you have to patch the
source and rebuild the package.

> Or is this just something I have to live with?

Of course not.  This is free software, after all.

Sven

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