...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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