Hello Finn!
 > 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 
4
 >> or Warp 3's  written manual.
 > That turns out to be not entirely true.
Well, Sekhar did ask about dual boot, didn't he? That's not about the 
bootmanager, and an enterely different matter. I someone wants to use dual 
boot, then he has to act as I described, and as it is stated in the Warp 
manuals. I do suggest you have a look at those manuals too. :-)
 > 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.
Quite right, if we are talking about the bootmanager-operations. But the 
dual-boot is a quite different matter, as is the dedidicated Dossession in 
W4, the latter being a more sophisticated dual-boot. But dualboot and 
dedicated Dos have to happen on C: ; moreover, the Dos-systemfiles have to be 
installed within the HD's first 1024 cylinders. Normally OS2 takes care of 
this.
To sum up:
A) a FAT partition
B) both DOS and OS2 on C:
C) Dos within the first 1024 cylinders.
Groeten uit Belgi‰
  Kris
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