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to: KRIS STEENHAUT
from: FINN HARDER
date: 1997-06-17 22:05:00
subject: Setting up dual boot

Hello Kris!
10 Jun 97 12:26, Kris Steenhaut wrote to Sekhar S:
 >> Greetings to Sekhar!
 >> I am new to os2 and need nhelp in setting up the dual boot. I have
 >> two hard disks
 >> disk 1 drice c: os2 fat primary
 >> disk 1 drive e: os2 hpfs
 >> disk 2 drive d: dos and windows.
 >> now i want to know how to setup my c drive so that i can dual boot.
 >> apparently it si not prepared. when i try to do a dual boot from the
 >> icon it says the disk does not contain dos records or some such
 >> thing. When i try to boot from a: it does not recognise it and says
 >> invalid command .
 > That is because your Dos-Fat partition is not on your drive C:
 > To use dual boot, both OS2 and Dos must reside on C: in a FAT formatted
 > partition. You'll find more about this in the readme that comes with Warp 

 > or Warp 3's  written manual.
That turns out to be not entirely true.
Dos must be on the primary bootable partition on the first hard drive, 
(0)(C:). The OS/2 can be anywhere. Here it is the first bootable partition on 
the second hard drive. (1)(F:). And F: is formatted as HPFS. The os2 boot 
partition must
be set up using the OS/2 FDISK. Also, room must be made on the first hard 
disk for the Boot-Manager partition.
After the system checks, the Boot-Manager asks what os I want to boot into. 
It defaults to OS/2, my choice.
 Works fine here.
Regards
Finn
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