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From: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX PS/2 boot from hard disk
Keywords: AIX PS/2 1.1, boot, harddisk
Message-ID: <22015@gryphon.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 89 12:25:37 GMT
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Reply-To: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
Organization: HASA
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>>[AIX not booting off hard disk]
>>>This seems in my experience to be associated with the use
>>>of a machine which has had OS/2 on it.  Not clear.
>>Perhaps OS/2 modified NVRAM or left its bootstrap around where PS/2 picks it
>>up instead of AIX bootstrap.

An even better idea -- was OS/2 partition over 32 Meg in size?  Those
partitions have a code different from <32 Meg in the MBR and the bootstrap
you have may not be able to understand it.
-- 
			"No regrets, no apologies"   Ronald Reagan

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