From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 17:14:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA15732 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 17:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from vogon.muc.de (root@vogon.muc.de [193.174.4.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA15723 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 17:13:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from [193.174.4.22] ([193.174.4.22]) by vogon.muc.de with SMTP id <93667-1>; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 02:13:32 +0100 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 02:15:52 +0100 To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU From: lutz@muc.de (Lutz Albers) Subject: Re: OS/2 Boot Manager, FreeBSD, & Win95 Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In article <01I0PSX1UFNM00E1Z1@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>, Annelise Anderson writes: - -I've got the OS/2 boot manager and DOS/Win3.1 on a first SCSI hard drive, -with the boot manager able to select the DOS partition or OS/2 or -FreeBSD on the second SCSI hard drive. This is working well. - -I would like to repartition and reformat the DOS/WIN3.1 partition into -two primary partitions on the first drive and reinstall DOS/WIN3.1 and -Win95 into these partitions, but I don't want to lose the OS/2 boot -manager, especially the info it contains about what's on the second -hard drive. If I do this, will I be able to get the OS/2 boot manager -back (with the OS/2 disks), and is there a way to back up the boot -manager so that if it's truly destroyed I can reinstall it? There's not much info stored with the boot manager. You can reinstall it anytime with the OS/2 fdisk command, IF THE FOLLOWING IS TRUE: you need a primary partition for the boot manager. A PC hard-disc can only hold 4 primary partitions (no extended partition then) or 3 primary partitions and an extended partition. You know that these 2 primary DOS partitions are unaccesible from each other ? PC hard disc partitions suck ... ciao lutz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lutz Albers | What's good ? Luederitzstr. 14, 81929-Muenchen, Germany | Life's good - email:lutz@muc.de ph: +49-89-93940364 | But not fair at all http://www.muc.de/~lutz fax:+49-89-93940365 | (Lou Reed) Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.