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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.724365933@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 20:45:33 GMT
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- samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore) writes:
- >> [microsoft won't work with os/2 and kills baby seals etc....]
-
- >Lets mention the obvious before we run off. Has anyone tried an alternate
- >boot manager (not ibm or miceysoft) ? How about posing the question to
- >MS directly (assume CI$) as to how to arrange a dual boot, explaining carefully
- >that you are devloping for both operating systems in tandem and it will be
- >a cold day below before we get sucked into this stupid little tiff ?
-
- >I missed the first part of this discuss. Can someone re-inform me as to how
- >NT refuses to run ? My understanding of the boot manager is that after it
- >selects a partition, the only way to determine what your boot source is
- >would be to start searching other partitions for os/2 code.
-
- It has been posted elsewhere that you can get around the MS tactics, but
- it would be painful if you already have OS2 installed.
-
- Basically, you take a clean disk, apply DOS, apply NT with flexboot,
- and then add Boot Manager at the end of the disk, and then apply OS2.
- At boot, Boot Mangler offers OS2 vs "DOS", then flexboot offers DOS
- vs NT. In essence, you can get around the problem by putting OS2 on
- after NT, so that NT doesn't die when it sees BM.
-
- Alternativley, you can remove the ID from an already installed BM,
- although I don't know how this is done - ask Mr. Sipples. This fools
- NT into thinking BM isn't there. After NT is on, you can re-activate
- BM.
-
- Ouch.
-
- PS - MS doesn't kill baby seals,
- they just maim them.
-
- --
- Tom Hatton
- hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
- (415)-476-7986
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