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- From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
- Subject: Re: Boot Failures--Was<IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???>
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- Message-ID: <92Sep09.161131.32775@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 16:11:31 GMT
- References: <1992Aug29.125049.3797@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Sep8.021953.11859@rock.concert.net> <1992Sep08.214711.25892@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep08.214711.25892@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfdwe@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (David Ebdon) writes:
- >Tom Wilson's remark in a previous post reminds me how I solved a boot
- >failure problem when I first put OS/2 on my 486-33 clone. Actually my 20
- >year old son solved it. We were using the dual boot procedure, and the
- >system "forgot" how to come up in OS/2. First we "sys-ed" it back to life
- >and then changed MS-DOS 5.0 for the IBM version (keeping qbasic.exe from
- >MS-DOS so that it and edit.com would remain functional). We then
- >reinstalled OS/2, again in the dual boot mode. So far there have been
- >no more boot failures. Is there some problem with generic MS-DOS and
- >OS/2? Or would I have had the same good luck by simply reinstalling OS/2?
- >I tend to think not since some problems with the DOS windows, experienced
- >before the change in DOS, disappeared. One of my colleagues today reported
- >that some network software which had frequently failed became very reliable
- >when MS-DOS was replaced by IBM-DOS 5.0--even on non-IBM (Zenith)
- >hardware. Our network software is from IBM. Hmmm.
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- I don't believe that. I installed OS/2 on a machine with MS-DOS 5.0.
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- I don't think there are any significant differences besides the
- name strings and Basic.
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- Luc B
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