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- From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
- Message-ID: <sal8.250.724312419@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 05:53:39 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com> <sal8.246.724201910@po.cwru.edu> <1992Dec13.225515.9365@ichips.intel.com>
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- In article <1992Dec13.225515.9365@ichips.intel.com> jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
- >From: jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.)
- >Subject: Re: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
- >Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:55:15 GMT
- >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).
- >>
- >
- >OK, so it will not install with the boot manager. Another post on this
- >news group mentioned that there is a bit in the boot record that may be toggled
- >so that the boot manager would not be visible during NT installation.
- >Would this work?
-
- Yep. If you read Tim's benchmark article you'll see that is exactly what
- they did to get everything on the same machine. Maybe someone will post the
- details?
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