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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: NT won't co-exist with OS/2?
- Message-ID: <hatton.724315198@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 06:39:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com> <sal8.246.724201910@po.cwru.edu> <1992Dec13.013647.18178@cdf.toronto.edu> <1992Dec13.230422.9540@ichips.intel.com>
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- jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
- >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.
-
- It is too late for this version, but perhaps a barrage of calls to
- MS complaining about this Boot Manager vs NT load might help - is
- there something about NT that *requires* it to be incompatible with
- Boot Manager, or are they being bloody-minded about it (as with
- deleting the ability of the C compiler to make OS2 code)?
-
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- Tom Hatton
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