Richard Steiner wrote:
 
> Quoting Davey Brain :
 
> > One minor point: "dual boot" is actually the OS/2
method of allowing DOS
> > & OS/2 to co-exist on a drive which allowed booting between the two.
 
> Yup -- in addition, if you install DOS and OS/2 in a dual-boot configuration,
> the common boot partition must be a FAT16 filesystem, and the boot sector on
> that common partition is rewritten on the fly when you switch between DOS and
> OS/2 boot mode.
 
> It's an interesting concept, but perhaps not as practical these days as it was
> in days past when almost everyone had a FAT16 C: drive.

Dual boot is not supported in eCS, and probably not in MCP. OTOH,
multiboot is, via BM. :-)
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