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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 doesn't recognize my FAT partition
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.104804.21892@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
- Organization: INMOS architecture group
- References: <whitney2.713581533@husc10>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:48:03 BST
- Lines: 46
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- In article <whitney2.713581533@husc10>, whitney2@husc10.harvard.edu (Wayne Whitney) writes:
- >I have my hard disk partitioned as (according to pmfdisk):
- >
- > Status Access File System Mbytes
- >Partition 1 Startable C :Primary HPFS 162
- >Partition 2 None D :Primary FAT 9
- >Partition 3 None :Primary Unformatted 52
- >Partition 4 None :Primary Unformatted 9
- >
- >where partitions 3 and 4 are a Linux root partition and swap
- >partition, respectively. However, OS/2 doesn't seem to recognize
- >Partition 2, the FAT partition--if I go to the OS/2 (or DOS) prompt
- >and type 'D:', OS/2 responds 'SYS0015: The system can not find the
- >drive specified.' I've tried booting from the install disk and
- >shelling out--D: is not available from there, either. Yet DOS booted
- >from a floppy makes this partition available to me as C:. Does anyone
- >have any idea what the problem is? Thanks.
-
-
- read the installation guide section on partitions.
-
- however you boot you will only see *ONE* primary partition.
-
- booting OS/2 gets you partition 1 as C: and partition 2 is
- ignored as it is a alternative primary partition
-
- booting DOS from floppy gets you partition 2 as C: as it rejects
- partition 1 as not being of the right format (it doesn't understand
- HPFS).
-
- you need to repartition.
-
- if you want partition 2 to be DOS bootable and accessible from OS/2
- the partition 2 needs to be primary and partition 1 extended (??
- forgotten right term for this) as OS/2 can boot off one of these.
- downside here is OS/2 will probaly end of D: :-(
-
- if you don't need DOS boot make partition 2 extended and you get
- to see it from OS/2
-
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