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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2071 ; Thu, 25 Feb 93 10:10:40 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!JUTS!zombie!tjw00 From: tjw00@zombie.uucp (Tom Wye) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: OS/2 Bootmanager Message-ID: <a0GM02OC377G01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 24 Feb 93 05:23:31 GMT References: <costa-220293110715@escondido.prepress.com> <730503019rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> <1mek11$ds0@bigboote.WPI.EDU> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation Lines: 39 In article <1mek11$ds0@bigboote.WPI.EDU> wtw@gingko.WPI.EDU (William T. Warner) writes: >In article <730503019rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes: >>In article <costa-220293110715@escondido.prepress.com> costa@benton.prepress.com (Bob Costa) writes: >>>How do you get a bootmanager to toggle between OS/2 and 386bsd. To the >>>best of my knowledge os/2 bootmanger can't hack it. >> >>What doesn't work? I had no problems using it with OS/2 and 386BSD. >>First, have boot manager and OS/2 installed, leave room for a 386BSD >>partition. Then install 386BSD on this free space. Reboot into OS/2 >>and use FDISK (or FDISKPM) there to add the 386BSD partition to the >>boot manager menu (give it a name too). >> >>Kai Uwe Rommel > >The problem I had, at least, was that 386bsd would hang when started >from Os/2's Boot manager menu. I had no problem installing the OS's, just >booting 386bsd. > >I wonder if my problem involved using the 386bsd boot block, versus >the OS/2 one, or whatever. I guess you're using the 386bsd one, since you >installed 386bsd last. Or maybe not... any ideas? > >(BTW, the problem is now moot for me, since I no longer share the hard drive >among the two OS's. But info for the future could be useful..) > For what it's worth, I too have had problems with OS/2's boot manager in the past. But currently it works just fine! I BELIEVE I got it working the last time I installed it by using the OS/2 FDISK program to create the 1 meg boot manager partition instead of DOS 5.0's. My disk drive is a SCSI drive with a adtaptec 1542BK, I have the standard SCSI driver and boot blocks installed that came with 386BSD 1.0. I don't have OS/2 installed on the disk at all, just the boot manager! I use it to switch between DOS 5.0 and 386BSD. The boot manager was the last thing I installed!