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- From: x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Has anyone made a Boot Disk?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.164213.4666@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 16:42:13 EST
- References: <1992Jul21.185351.4591@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <1992Jul21.185351.4591@unixg.ubc.ca>, twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
- > Has anyone tried making a boot disk (as opposed to the usual install
- > disk then disk 1 then Esc key)? I grabbed the bootdisk.txt file from
- > ftp-os2 site, and followed it to make myself a bootdisk. I tried
- > booting from it and OS/2 booted up just fine. But when I tried to do a
- > "dir" on C:\, I get the error.....
- >
- > SYS00026: The specified disk or disketter cannot be accessed.
- >
- > I'm using the Boot Manager for DOS 5 and OS/2, and at this point Drive C:
- > is my OS/2 system partition formated as HPFS. Now if I ran DOS last so that
- > my DOS system partition was my last bootable partition so that when I boot
- > from floppy, my Drive C: would still be my DOS system partition which
- > is FAT, I can read it ok using this OS/2 bootdisk. It's just if I ran OS/2
- > last so that my OS/2 HPFS is now Drive C:, booting from this OS/2
- > bootdisk now, it doesn't recognize this HPFS or some problem like this.
- >
- > Has anyone been successful with a bootdisk? Thanks.
- >
- > Thomas.
- >
- Yes, to automate the process get makebootdisk.cmd (makbtdsk1.zoo at
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in /pub/os2/2.0/sysutils). Also if your boot floppy
- is a 5.25 I recomend a DOS floppy formater called fdformat. This
- allows you to format a 1.2M diskette to 1.44M thus giving you the
- room to get all the chkdsk stuff on the disk with a little room left
- over for a small editor (tedp.exe).
-
- /Doug
-