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| subject: | Re: [OS2HW] Plain warp 4 GA |
Kris Steenhaut wrote: > Hello, > > I'm changing mail with someone only having a plain Warp 4 CD GA (thus 1994 or so) > > - He told me he has installed OS/2 in the past onto a 20 Giga disk at partition E: > > - He tried to install to a new partition C: an OS/2 system for testing. > > > - After that he couldn't boot to his partition E: anymore, can't install to C: and the bootmanager shows nothing as installable nor startable. Running fdisk (from disks he told me) results in nothing been saved > > - What I am wondering is: at a 20 Giga disk, Warp 4 GA must have troubles with the 1024th cylinder boundery, or do I have that wrong? > > > > I think you've hit the nail on the head Kris - sounds very much like the 1024 cylinder boundry problem. Could it also be that there are already the maximum number of primary partitions on the drive ? Does this user have boot manager on the drive ? If so it that at the start, end or in the middle of the drive ? Cheers/2 Ed. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/lOt0.A/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2hardware/ Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2hardware/join (Yahoo! ID required) To change settings via email: mailto:os2hardware-digest{at}yahoogroups.com mailto:os2hardware-fullfeatured{at}yahoogroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: os2hardware-unsubscribe{at}yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---* Origin: Waldo's Place USA Internet Gateway (1:3634/1000) SEEN-BY: 633/267 5030/786 @PATH: 3634/1000 12 123/500 379/1 633/267 |
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