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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Boot Manager and NT incompatibility; Read on!
- Message-ID: <hatton.724402189@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 06:49:49 GMT
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- jvert@microsoft.com (John Vert) writes:
-
- >[ giant anti-MS polemic deleted ]
-
- >The reason that the NT Beta will not install with Boot Manager is NOT
- >because Microsoft hates IBM, or because Microsoft wants to make your life
- >miserable, or any other shadowy Microsoft conspiracy. The reason is
- >that Boot Manager plays games with the partition table. Notably, the
- >partition that NTLDR gets started from is no longer marked ACTIVE.
- >Instead, the Boot Manager partition is marked ACTIVE. Whether or not
- >you think IBM has broken the "rules" of the MBR and partition table,
- >the fact is that without a lot of amazing gymnastics (like Doug Hamilton
- >has outlined elsewhere) you cannot get Boot Manager and NTLDR to agree
- >on what partition should be marked ACTIVE.
-
- >Since installation of NT over Boot Manager will likely result in either
- >an unbootable NT or an unbootable OS/2, Windows NT Setup does its best
- >to prevent this. You may consider this "sneaky" or "underhanded" if
- >you like. But the truth is that this configuration is not supported
- >for a REASON that has nothing to do with marketing.
- > jvert@microsoft.com (speaking, of course, for myself)
-
- Just one question - if someone else could figure out that twiddling the
- BM ID bit would allow NT to install, why didn't the wizards and whizzes
- at MS figure it out and use that as a workaround the Evil Boot Manager?
- Thus allowing those with OS2 already installed to have a reasonable
- shot at installing NT.
-
-
- --
- Tom Hatton
- hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
- (415)-476-7986
-