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In a msg of , Finn Harder writes to Kris Steenhaut:
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Finn,
>> 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 4 or Warp 3's written manual.
FH> That turns out to be not entirely true.
Actually, it *IS* entirely true!
FH> Dos must be on the primary bootable partition on the first hard
FH> drive, (0)(C:). The OS/2 can be anywhere. Here it is the first
FH> bootable partition on the second hard drive. (1)(F:). And F: is
FH> formatted as HPFS. The os2 boot partition must be set up using
FH> the OS/2 FDISK. Also, room must be made on the first hard disk
FH> for the Boot-Manager partition.
What you have described is a system using Boot Manager. The original
statement was regarding Dual Boot, an entirely different animal - Dual Boot
and Boot Manager are not the same thing!
-[Steve]-
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