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From: Michael_Shiels@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org (Michael Shiels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: bootany
Message-ID: <9105231121.AA92767@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org>
Date: 18 May 91 10:32:09 GMT
Reply-To: Michael_Shiels@f628.n250.z1.fidonet.org (Michael Shiels)
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Comment-To: Michael_Shiels@f628.n250.z1.fidonet.org (Michael Shiels)

After much more carefully examination with a very good debugger I figure out 
that the COMPAQ FASTART program has a serious bug in it.  When you add 
partitions it does notice that the prior entries are used but it still 
starts each subsequent partition at the start of the drive.  So what I had 
was a partition table with 3 entries 10M, 20M, 20M which all overlayed each 
other.  NICE PROGRAM.  On the other hand BOOTANY seems to be OK.  I found 
one thing that seemed to not work correctly though.  When you start to do 
the INSTBOOT.BAT which runs the 2 programs to actually install the boot 
sector.  If one of your partitions is not bootable it will make it bootable 
for you.  Somehow there is a wrong calculation there because it actually 
destroyed the partition table by writing the 80h in the wrong spot.  So I 
had to go in and patch it by hand.  Has anyone modified BOOTANY to handle 2 
drives.  Ie upto 6 boot partitions?  I am using it on my development machine 
to boot 3 different versions of DOS right now.  But would like to add 2 
versions of OS/2.


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