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- From: azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Boot Manager Problem / alternatives?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.215918.3957@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 21:59:18 GMT
- References: <ricky.724260979@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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- In article <ricky.724260979@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> ricky@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr RS Mcconachy) writes:
- >I installed the Boot Manager as the 1st thing on the disk, a 250M HPFS
- >primary partition for OS/2, and a 73M primary partition for DOS (yep,
- >that's the whole disk, the 340M is actually 340,000,000 bytes :-). I
- >added the 2 primary partitions to Boot Manager's menu and proceeded as
- >the docs suggest. All is now cool except that when I boot the system
- >I get offerred THREE choices!? The two I want ("DOS 5.0" and "OS/2 2.0")
- >aswell as one called "000001c7" which I know nothing about..... I have
- >tried deleting and reinstalling the Boot Manager partition, and then the
- >entire HD to no avail. If I choose this 3rd option I get a non-system
- >disk type error. Anybody got any ideas on how to kill off this option?
-
- You'd probably get more use out of your system if you set up the 73M primary
- as your first partition, then made the 250M HPFS as a LOGICAL drive, and
- then put the boot manager at the end. Even better, make a 200MB HPFS and a
- 50MB HPFS. Put OS/2 on the 50M, and your other data on the 200. That
- allows you to re-format your install partition without having to back up
- your data (folks who play with beta OS/2 need this!). If you make all but
- your DOS drive LOGICAL, you can always see them. Any program on your DOS
- drive wouldn't be available under OS/2, unless you let OS/2 boot from a
- LOGICAL.
-
- Now, about your problem - it sounds like you've got an extra partition
- marked bootable. Could you redirect the output of FDISK /QUERY to a file
- and send that to me? I'd like to know what your partition table looks like.
-
- -- "The OS/2 Guy"
-