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From: sigurd@sun.acs.udel.edu (Sigurd Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Problem with dual boot
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Date: 14 Mar 90 16:42:52 GMT
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In article <5237@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> olender@sor.CS.ColoState.Edu
 (Kurt Olender) writes:
: I've installed IBM OS/2 v1.2 on a 386 clone and am having some problems
: with booting DOS from a floppy (otherwise it works fine).
: 
: Several weeks ago, several messages described a procedure to set up
: OS/2 1.2 so that dual boot and HPFS could co-exist.
:	[ ... ] 
: Can anyone enlighten me as to what I should do, what steps I omitted,
: or why what I want to do can't possibly work?
: 
: Thanks in advance.

I have not been following this group regularly, so may be duplicating
what others have already posted.  If so, sorry for any inconvenience.

I have installed IBM OS/2 Std. Edition v1.2 on an IBM PS/2 model 80
set up for DUAL BOOT.  I did this by creating a large C: FAT partition,
installing DOS so that it would boot from C:, then installing OS/2 set
for dual boot ALSO on C:.  Once this was done, I could use the BOOT
command to re-boot and come up in either DOS or OS/2.  After this all
worked, I created another partition (with the space unused when I first
used FDISK to set up the C: partition) for HPFS - which only OS/2 will
recognize.
So -- I can now boot DOS or OS/2 from C:, and have an HPFS partition
for all the OS/2 stuff beyond what is required for booting to OS/2.

Some or all of this procedure may not work with non-IBM versions of
OS/2 SE 1.2.  Not having access to such, I have no way of knowing.

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