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From: wolfaajj@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
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Subject: Re: DOS + OS/2 2.0 + 386bsd 0.1 installation .....
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Date: 3 Sep 92 10:09:10 GMT
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In article <1992Aug28.220423.9273@umr.edu>, jlu@cs.umr.edu (Eric Jui-Lin Lu) writes:
|> After spending nights of reformats, reboots, and reinstallations, I
|> kinda came out a wierd combination of DOS, OS/2, and 386bsd in one
|> hard disk.  I used os-bs as the boot manager and its menu looks
|> like DOS -- part 0, OS/2 part 1, and 386bsd in part 3.  Partition 2
|> is for logical HPFS OS2.  I'm not quite satisfied with this.  Since
|> when I choose OS/2, OS2 boot manager menu comes up.  I wish to
|> eliminate this OS/2 boot manager totally.  Is there a way to do
|> this? (this will save me another ~1.5MB.)  Thanks!
|> 
|> --Eric
|> --jlu@cs.umr.edu

There is no need to add the seperate OS/2 boot manager partition
to the os-bs boot menu. Instead add the HPFS OS/2 partition to
the menu, then you can boot OS/2 from the boot menu directly.
(Maybe you must install the "set-active-before-boot"-option.)

Unfortunatly there is only one way to reallocate the 1.5MB boot
manager partition to another system: repartitioning (at least
in particular) of the disk.

-- Thomas

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