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- From: jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.)
- Subject: Re: NT won't co-exist with OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.230422.9540@ichips.intel.com>
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- Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
- References: <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com> <sal8.246.724201910@po.cwru.edu> <1992Dec13.013647.18178@cdf.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:04:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.013647.18178@cdf.toronto.edu> g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis) writes:
- >In article <sal8.246.724201910@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
- >>The NT beta has code included that makes it absolutely refuse to install if
- >>it detects the OS/2 boot manager on your hard drive. Pretty rude of MS if
- >>you ask me (OS/2 does no such check for NT).
- >
- > Hmm, that just gave me a hell of an idea! Why not write a little utility
- > that will disable the OS/2 Boot Manager bit from the Master Boot Record?
- >
- > And make it available for ftp! Who knows I might get a chance over X-mas
- > to do this myself. Don't hold your breath though.
- >
- > Nick.
- >
- Nick,
-
- Sorry to respond to this same post twice.
-
- This capability is very important to me. If you are not going to write
- it then I will try. My problem is very little knowledge of the boot manager/
- boot process. Where can I get information on this topic.
-
- Please let me know if you are or are not going to write this program.
-
- How would this work? An OS/2 program to go in and alter the Master Boot
- Record? Then an NT program to set it back after NT is installed? Or use
- NT's fdisk. Could OS/2's fdisk disable the boot manager?
-
- Lots of questions. As you can tell I am quite excited over this.
-
- Thanks
-
- John
-