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- From: ricky@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr RS Mcconachy)
- Subject: Boot Manager Problem / alternatives?
- Message-ID: <ricky.724260979@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:36:19 GMT
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- G'day people,
-
- Having decided that I needed some more disk space I purchased a second
- IDE drive (340M WD Caviar) and installed it with my old drive (210M WD
- Pirahna). I then set about feeding my PC disks to reinstall DOS (yuk! :-)
- and OS/2 2.0 GA and SP. All went well except for one small problem:
-
- I installed the Boot Manager as the 1st thing on the disk, a 250M HPFS
- primary partition for OS/2, and a 73M primary partition for DOS (yep,
- that's the whole disk, the 340M is actually 340,000,000 bytes :-). I
- added the 2 primary partitions to Boot Manager's menu and proceeded as
- the docs suggest. All is now cool except that when I boot the system
- I get offerred THREE choices!? The two I want ("DOS 5.0" and "OS/2 2.0")
- aswell as one called "000001c7" which I know nothing about..... I have
- tried deleting and reinstalling the Boot Manager partition, and then the
- entire HD to no avail. If I choose this 3rd option I get a non-system
- disk type error. Anybody got any ideas on how to kill off this option?
-
- Also, a few months ago I was playing with 386BSD and a (German I think)
- gent posted note about his boot manager. It was a small C program
- which you compiled under DOS (Turbo C) and then ran. The executable
- then set up a boot record that has most of the features of IBM's Boot
- Manager with 2 big advantages - it doesn't take up one of your precious
- partitions (just the boot record itself), and it doesn't require a meg
- of disk space (you can throw away the C code and DOS executable after
- you've run it). If anybody can help me locate this program/gentleman
- again (I've lost the News note he sent :-( ) I'd be very appreciative!
-
- Thanks heaps in advance,
-
- Richard McConachy - ricky@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
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