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- From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Can both DOS and OS2 be booted from same HD ?
- Keywords: boot, partition
- Message-ID: <HBPmoB2w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 15:38:52 GMT
- References: <nnhut.712263877@bcarh676>
- Sender: bbs@comtch.spk.wa.us (Waffle bbs)
- Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington
- Lines: 48
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- nnhut@bnr.ca (Nhut Nguyen) writes:
-
- > Hi world,
- >
- > Please excuse my ignorance if this has been discussed, but I need
- > advice from net.knowledge :-)
- >
- > I have installed OS2 as HPFS in partition 3 of my hard disk. I also
- > have DOS installed in partition 1. Is there any trick that I can
- > use so that I can boot from both DOS and OS2 partitions?
- >
- > I know how to change partition ID so that DOS partition can be bootable
- > after OS2 installation, but the problem seems to be that if I marked
- > partition 1 as a DOS partition, OS2 think that partition 1 is drive C:
- > and tries to get files from there, and fails. Is it possible that I can
- > change config.sys to instruct OS2 to get files from partition 3 instead ?
- > I would like to know whether this is possibe before jump into changing
- > my config.sys.
- >
- > BTW, BOOT manager is not an option because I need all 4 partitions.
- > Also dual boot is not good because I want to use HPFS.
- >
- > Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Please post here if you have any
- > suggestion.
- >
- > Cheers,
- >
- > --
- > +============================================================================
- > | Nhut Nguyen | Internet: nnhut@bnr.ca
- > | BNR Ltd., Ottawa, Canada | "Oogawa oto wo tatezu..."
- > +============================================================================
-
-
- Dear Nhut,
-
- As far as I know - you can only use OS/2 to recognise an HPFS partition,
- and the only way you'll be able to see all four partitions with both
- operating systems is to use the FAT system for all four partitions. If
- you find a way to boot DOS (from DOS) and still see the HPFS partitions,
- I would be extremely interested in how this was done. It would be
- interesting if a device driver was written for DOS to enable HPFS
- partitions to be recognised.
-
-
-
- mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us _or_ mstaben@visual.spk.wa.us
-
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