On 2 Oct 2006 at 13:01, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > dhbailey / 2006/10/02 / 06:00 AM wrote: > > >It didn't even have to be true in Win98 -- it was possible to create > >a bootable CD, and whether a computer can boot from CD or DVD or has > >to boot from a floppy or hard drive is purely a function of the > >computer's CMOS setup, nothing to do with windows. > > Unless I am remembering things totally wrong, I don't recall OS/2 had > boot location (which bus and where) limitation like DOS/Win has.
OS/2 installed a boot manager on your hard drive that took care of this. A client of mine had a Win95/DOS 6 system that used the OS/2 boot manager to give a choice of boot environment. Don't ask me why she thought she needed to do that, but she did, and somebody who was an OS/2 guru set it up for her. It was still the primary boot hard drive that was doing the booting -- there was no magic that allowed you to boot from any device just because you had OS/2. You had to have the boot manager configured to boot from the particular device. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
