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- From: andreast@athena.mit.edu (Andreas Turanski)
- Subject: Re: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.174111.20310@athena.mit.edu>
- Summary: Boot Manager works with DR-DOS
- Keywords: Boot Manager Digital Research DR DOS
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:41:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com> jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
- >I have been using the Boot Manager with a variety of OSs. I know that it
- >works with [...]
-
- >Of particular interest to me is: Novell (286 and 386 versions), DR-DOS,
- [rest del'd]
-
- John,
- I have and am successfully using DR-DOS 6.0 with OS/2 and the Boot
- Manager. There are almost no problems. The only major consideration is
- that if one uses the SuperStor dynamic disk compression which comes
- with DR-DOS, any and all files which are in a SuperStor partition
- canNOT be accessed in _any_way_ while running OS/2 2.0. Trust me.
- I've tried! Other than that (which is not really a "problem"
- but more the lack of availability of a "feature" <G>) there
- are no difficulties that I have ever had except the following two:
-
- 1: Do NOT run CHKDSK on your DR-DOS partition(s) from under OS/2.
- ONLY run DR-DOS's CHKDSK and then only while under _straight_
- DR-DOS. If you accidentally _do_ do this, life is not lost, but
- I am not sure of a consistently working way of recovering.
- If one DOES run os2 CHKDSK on the DR-DOS partition, one should
- kill it ASAP (CTRL-C), shut down and go to straight DR-DOS to
- see if a DR-DOS CHKDSK will fix things. The symptoms which afflict
- the os2 session before shutdown is that it fails to correctly
- read the affected partition(s) giving a lot of "garbage" when
- a DIR command is executed, etc.
- NOTE: I think that this also applies to other (i.e. MS/PC DOSs).
-
- 2: I think when I originally partitioned and formatted my drive for
- Boot Man. DR-DOS 6.0, and OS/2 2.0 I had to do the following
- so I could install DR-DOS and have it "visible" from os2:
-
- a. make all the partitions from os2 disk #1 during os2 install.
- These included those mentioned above in 2.
-
- b. format the DR-DOS partition from os2?? or from os2 then from
- DR-DOS (sorry I don't remember exactly as I tried a few combo's <G>),
- maybe even just from DR-DOS. If the wrong method was chosen either
- I couldn't install DR-DOS or I couldn't use the DR-DOS partition
- from within os2.
-
-
-
- Hope this helped, just write me if you have more questions.
-
- Andreas.
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