Ed Durrant ha scritto:
> 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 ?
>
>   
Thank you for the support.

He removed the bootmanager he told, in order to reinstal it afterwards. 
And after  he did so, things went wrong as I discribed.
Could it be he has unwillingly moved the BM byond the 1024 boundery?


-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris




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