Hi Thomas and all,
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:21:55 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from Joerg Dietze:
> with PTS-DOS on Your C: drive You can boot a OS from any drive in
> Your machine, all You have to do is install the OS at the drive You
> want, save the boot sector to a file and set up an entry in config.pts
> file. Documentation from PTS-DOS says this will be possible with POSIX
> like systems, too. I also was to start the OS/2 bootmanager to boot
> OS/2.
> (end of quote)
> Could you start OS/2 from PTS-DOS without going through OS/2 Boot Manager?
> Would it work from floppy as well? I've wondered about how to boot OS/2
> full-function from drive A, as might be needed if the MBR has been corrupted.
> This is much easier with Linux, type 'mount root=/dev/hda6' (or wherever the
> root partition is) at the 'boot:' prompt.
> Could you start Windows NT or 2000 from PTS-DOS?
No, trying to start OS/2 without boot manager crashed OS/2 with some SYS
errors. I never checked NT or 2000 'cuz these will not match my old 486.
Starting a DOS like system from floppy will work without problems. I
also never tried creating boot floppies for OS/2, but there seems to be
a ways to do this, 'cuz there are 2 floppy disks when You wat to install
it and have no bootable CD_ROM drive (at least with OS/2 3.0).
Regards Joerg
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