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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: NT won't co-exist with OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.193519.1203@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec13.230422.9540@ichips.intel.com> <1992Dec14.033956.24885@netcom.com> <hatton.724365933@cgl.ucsf.edu> <1992Dec16.195913.2231@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:35:19 GMT
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- In <1992Dec16.195913.2231@ultb.isc.rit.edu> djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith) writes:
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- >I have no plans whatsoever to run NT... but there is a way to do it,
- >if it wont install in the presence of OS/2's boot manager.
-
- >If you already have the boot manager installed under os/2 and you want
- >to put NT on a partition... then under OS/2 destroy the boot manager and
- >then install NT on the drive without removing the 1Meg partition
- >that housed the Boot Manager. After NT is sucessfully installed, boot
- >OS/2 from a floppy disk and run fdisk to re-create the boot manager.
-
- >I know the boot manager can be killed and put back because I accidently
- >destroyed mine when attempting to make my Linux partition bootable. I
- >just booted off of my install disks and recreated it. No problem.
-
- However, as I understand it, this still won't work unless you get a
- disk editor and blank out the partition header for the Boot Manager.
- It seems the NT looks specifically for this header, and if it finds it
- refuses to run.
-
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