Herb.Martin@f36.n264.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Herb Martin) (01/29/90)
The MS-OS/2 that came with (at least) the 1.1 SDK was a "boot time" choice utility. You run it (from a DOS formatted diskette) after installing OS/2 and it installs itself for execution on every boot. A default and a timeout value are chosen. The default system is run when the timeout occurs. This thing is very dangerous to run from any but a virgin DOS disk. I installed it for 1.2 EE but since I had upgraded to a 3 1/2 drive, I just copied the 5 1/4 dualboot stuff to a 3 1/2. Turns out if you do not use a virgin dos disk it has a tendency to 1) fail to install (not too bad) or 2) Cross link you file system (catastrophic)! -- Herb Martin - via FidoNet node 1:140/22 UUCP: alberta!dvinci!weyr!264!36!Herb.Martin Internet: Herb.Martin@f36.n264.z1.FIDONET.ORG Standard Disclaimers Apply...
Peter.Fitzsimmons@p1.f628.n250.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Peter Fitzsimmons) (01/30/90)
> >Under os/2, you can get around this by "echo y | boot /dos". But > >this does not work under dos for some reason. I wrote a simple DOS > >program, BOOT2, which boots os/2 - no questions asked - by copying > >the BOOT.OS2 file to sector 1 and renaming the proper > >\os2\system\*.os2 files. > > > > This is what I'd suggest: > 1) Make a file containing a Y and carriage return. > Call it YES.TXT > > 2) Make a DOS.CMD file containing > @BOOT /DOS < YES.TXT > nul > > 3) Make a OS2.BAT file containing > @BOOT /OS2 < YES.TXT > nul Won't work. Under dos, BOOT.COM is not getting the input from stdin. (But it is under os/2 -- but have something to do with the FAPI code i guess). -- Peter Fitzsimmons - via FidoNet node 1:140/22 UUCP: alberta!dvinci!weyr!250!628.1!Peter.Fitzsimmons Internet: Peter.Fitzsimmons@p1.f628.n250.z1.FIDONET.ORG Standard Disclaimers Apply...
Kenneth.Neal@p0.f69.n110.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Kenneth Neal) (01/30/90)
In a message from Rand Harner, to Leo Fahey, 27 Jan 90 LF> Dual boot is really just the ticket. RH> Is that the one where you run BOOT /DOS or BOOT /OS2 and get the OS you want ? Yes. -- Kenneth Neal - via FidoNet node 1:140/22 UUCP: alberta!dvinci!weyr!110!69.0!Kenneth.Neal Internet: Kenneth.Neal@p0.f69.n110.z1.FIDONET.ORG Standard Disclaimers Apply...
thaler@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) (02/04/90)
That's funny, I have a os2.bat file for DOS that reads
ECHO y|c:\os2\boot /dos
and it works just fine.
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