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- From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
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- Subject: Re: installation help
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- Organization: Udo Munk's private BBS
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:19:10 GMT
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- dfilip@colornet.com wrote:
- : Christopher Mauritz writes:
- : >Richard Warwick (WARWICKR@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU) wrote:
- [...]
- : If Coherent is your 'active' partition, and the MWC boot program is installed,
- : you should simply be able to turn on your system and Coherent will come up.
- :
- : If you want to boot OS/2, and the MWC boot program is still there, right after
- : the floppies reset and the system 'beeps' type in the # of the partition that
- : the OS/2 Boot Manager resides in, and then boot OS/2 (partition # is 1-4 (i.e.,
- : NOT zero offset)).
- :
- : Personally, I have done the opposite : my active parition is the OS/2 Boot
- : Manager, and therefore if I do nothing it starts up and gives me a choice
- : of either DOS or OS/2. If I type the partition # of Coherent, then the MWC
- : boot program starts up Coherent (I have done this because my wife occasionally
- : uses DOS on my PC, and I don't want her booting up Coherent without knowing
- : how to cleanly shut it down).
- [...]
- Just to remember: if no partition is active COHERENT's master boot
- outputs a prompt and lets you enter the partition to boot, without
- the need to type in the # at the right time.
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