Some senseless babbling from Linda Proulx to Mike Ruskai
on 11-16-99  00:01 about Re: file /query...

 LP> Greetings and Salutations,

 LP> -=> MIKE RUSKAI wrote to LINDA PROULX <=-
 
 LP> Did the fdisk /query.  Here is what it said.
 
 LP> DriveName Partition Vtype FStype Status Start Size
 
 LP> 1 0000003f      c:    1     06       2     0  1023
 LP> 1 001ffe00      d:    1     06       0  1023   511
 LP> 1 002ffd00      e:    1     06       0  1535   511
 LP> 1 003ffc00      f:    1     06       0  2047   397
 LP> 2 0000003f      g:    1     06       2     0  1023
 LP> 2 001ffe00      h:    1     06       0  1023  1023
 LP> 2 003ffc00      i:    1     06       0  2047  1023
 LP> 2 005ffa00      j:    1     06       0  3071   259
 LP> 2 00681900       :    0     00       0  3331     5
 LP> **BIOS: 504MB
 
 LP> Does this answer anything?
 
 MR> What that tells us is that all of your drives are FAT, and that none of
 MR> the partitions on drive 2 can be booted from, while any on drive 1 can
 MR> be booted from.

 LP> I haven't loaded Warp yet.  Each hard drive can be booted from if
 LP> necessary (in DOS) from their C partitions.

No, that's not the case at all.  The **BIOS: 504MB message up there means
that your BIOS is not doing any translation for the second physical drive.
There is also no disk manager program present.  Because of that, no
partition beyond the first 504MB of the disk can be read by the BIOS at
all.  Since the first partition on that drive is 1GB, neither it nor any
after it can be booted at all, without turning on translation, and
repartitioning the drive entirely.

 MR> What it doesn't say is which drives are primary, and which aren't.

 LP> Other that the double space drive, all are.

Which means that you once again ignored the competent advice given to you
in this echo, and have places yourself in a position where installing OS/2
will result in only one partition of drive 1 being visible.

OS/2 may see all of the drives now, booted from floppy, but it will not
work when you install Boot Manager.  Why?  Because Boot Manager will let
you choose one and only one drive to boot from.  If that drive is a primary
partition, it will be given an appropriate type (type 0x06 in this case,
indicating that it is a FAT16 partition greater than 32MB in size).  All
other primary partitions on the drive will be given the type 0x16, which is
an invalid type, making the partitions hidden to OS/2 (and anything else,
until the type is changed back to 0x06).

So, until you partition the drives correctly, per the advice you've
received several times over in this very echo, you will not be able to use
OS/2 and see more than one partition on the first drive.

The only possible exception is if you don't install Boot Manager at all,
and install OS/2 on the first primary partition, leaving all other
partitions as type 0x06.  OS/2 may then see and use all drives, but you
will be able to use only OS/2 and DOS on this machine, in a Dual Boot
configuration.  DOS, however, will not be able to see drives G: through J:,
because they are all outside of the BIOS's ability to read.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... But how do we know your the REAL Angel of Death?

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