[864] in OS/2_Discussion
Re: Chris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin)
Thu Mar 14 01:58:58 1996
To: vintage@atcon.com (DARRYL MAC LEOD)
Cc: os2www@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 14 Mar 1996 02:48:07 -0400.
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 01:58:36 EST
From: Chris Shabsin <shabby@MIT.EDU>
|> Thank you for your reply. It's been so long since i've had os2 working I'm
|> guessing a bit (New computer user) but I am pretty sure It just came on
|> screen with a menu without booting it . Darryl MacLeod
Did you ever have the option of booting MS-DOS instead of OS/2?
Perhaps when you turned on your computer a blue menu appeared with
selections for DOS and OS/2?
Hmm... I'm afraid I may not be able to be of help, actually, if what
I suspect happened is true... If you did not have the blue menu then
your OS/2 boot sector code has probably been overwritten. I'm not
sure whether any work has been done making OS/2 and Win95 coexist on
the same partition, but I somehow doubt it. If you have multiple hard
drive partitions you can attempt a reinstall of OS/2 onto another
partition, but you will most likely not be able to run Windows under
OS/2 apps (unless you have the version of OS/2 that does not rely on
the Windows already existent on the hard drive - the version that has
its own version of Windows is marked by the Warp box with the blue
edge instead of the red edge.)
I hope I'm not being too confusing here... I will go into more detail
in less directions if you give me an idea which way you need to go.
Sorry.
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