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- From: jc70@westend.VI.CMU.EDU (Joo C. Chung)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Has anyone made a Boot Disk?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.143647.24302@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 14:36:47 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.185351.4591@unixg.ubc.ca>
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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.
-
- I'm not sure the problem is with the boot disk. If the OS/2 partition is a
- primary partition and not an extended logical partition, then you won't be able
- to see the OS/2 partition from dos or from the boot disk. And you won't be able
- to see the DOS partition from OS/2. So....repartition your hard disk. Make DOS
- the first primary partition and OS/2 an extended logical partition.
-
-
-
- Joo.
-