vlruo02@dutrun.UUCP (Ge van Geldorp) (11/12/89)
In article <22015@gryphon.COM> oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes: >>[AIX not booting off hard disk on which OS/2 was once installed] >An even better idea -- was OS/2 partition over 32 Meg in size? Those >partitions have a code different from <32 Meg in the MBR and the bootstrap >you have may not be able to understand it. This weekend, I experimented a little bit trying to put /etc/masterboot at the beginning of /dev/hd00, but failed. Since I had prepared myself for a full low-level reformat of the disk, I didn't try to hard and got on with the low-level reformat. After that I reinstalled AIX and lo and behold, it booted ok from the harddisk! It seems doing a full backup, low-level format and restore was the penalty I had to pay for even LOOKING at OS/2. Makes you wonder what the penalty is for actually USING it :-) Thanks to all the kind people who offered their advice on this one. Ge van Geldorp ge@dutlru2.tudelft.nl ...!uunet!hp4nl!dutlru2.tudelft.nl!ge