Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ames!dftsrv!hq!sysp1!kilmer From: kilmer@hq.af.mil Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: Dual Boot for OS/2 1.2 Keywords: dual boot hpfs os/2 1.2 Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 90 14:06:45 GMT References: <2462@cod.NOSC.MIL> <4304@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <1029@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <2463@cod.NOSC.MIL> <89@cscdec.cs.com> Sender: news@hq.afcsa.af.mil Lines: 38 Re: dual boot... Make sure that DOS is on a FAT partition! As far as I know, (or as far as my own experience goes), when you boot under DOS only, you cannot read the HPFS partition. Thus, if DOS is on HPFS, I don't think she'll boot. Please correct me if I'm wrong, OS/2 world. Now, if you enter DOS through the compatiblity box, you can read the partition, which makes life kinda wierd. You see, I have four partitions: (1) FAT (2) FAT (3) HPFS (4) FAT (this is where my DOS apps are) What I ran into was that if I wanted to execute any DOS app from the compat. box I would 'see' then 3'rd partition, but under a DOS boot, I wouldn't see it. This plays hell with maintaining PATH, LIB, and INCLUDE environment variables. P.S. - I ended up making partition (4) HPFS, and (3) FAT. Soooo, to be safe I'm making it rule to put DOS apps before the HPFS partition I'm not sure if there's a better way...I'm sure there is. See ya, Richard -- .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Richard Kilmer Kilmer@Opsnet-Pentagon.af.mil | | VAX Systems Analyst (AKA Kilmer@26.24.0.26) | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Richard Kilmer Kilmer@Opsnet-Pentagon.af.mil | | VAX Systems Analyst (AKA Kilmer@26.24.0.26) | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'