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echo: os2dos
to: KRIS STEENHAUT
from: TONY DUNLAP
date: 1997-07-10 15:09:00
subject: Setting up dual boot

...and thus spake Kris Steenhaut unto Tony Dunlap:
 KS> Hello tony
 >  JT> No.  More than just a couple files have to be changed; the
 >  JT> boot record must also be altered to point to the OS/2 system
 >  JT> files instead of MS-DOS ones.  With "Dual Boot" you go from
 >  JT> one system to another by typing "BOOT /DOS" or "BOOT /OS2"
 > Hmmmm. Theoretically then, one of the selections on the DOS6 boot
 > menu could run the BOOT /OS2 program.
 KS> No, that's  incorrect. When you see MSDos - PCDos 6.x
 KS> menuitem, the Dos systemfiles are already loaded into
 KS> memory.  At that point there is no way to start OS2. That's
 KS> what it is.
Sorry, I've tried it. It's a kludge, but it works. It works by running (in 
the autoexec.bat), the command: echo y|c:\os2\boot /os2, which then reboots 
the system into OS/2.
Later 
Tony Dunlap, (tdunlap@odot.dot.ohio.gov)
Any comments are my own and do not represent the opinions of my employer. 
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