Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca!ballard From: ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware Subject: Re: OS/2 upgrade problem (Dual Boot) Message-ID: <1991Feb1.162437.11287@unixg.ubc.ca> Date: 1 Feb 91 16:24:37 GMT References: <1991Jan31.141136.6885@ulrik.uio.no> Sender: news@unixg.ubc.ca (Usenet News Maintenance) Organization: Computing Services, University of British Columbia Lines: 17 In article <1991Jan31.141136.6885@ulrik.uio.no> me@spirea.UiB.NO (My Account) writes: >Hi. I don't know if this is the right place for this, but I don't get any groups here that are called comp.sys.os2 or similar. The OS/2 news groups are called comp.os.os2.{misc,programmer,...} . > I've just upgraded to OS/2 1.3 standard, and lost the dual boot... I haven't installed this myself (still haven't managed to extract 1.3 from IBM Canada). But I've read elsewhere that to preserve dual boot when you upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 you *must* do the 1.3 intall from DOS mode. That is, boot /dos, then do the install. Alan Ballard | Internet: ballard@ucs.ubc.ca University Computing Services | Bitnet: USERAB1@UBCMTSG University of British Columbia | Phone: 604-228-3074 Vancouver B.C. Canada V6R 1W5 | Fax: 604-228-5116