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NT installation on a 26 GB single partition
It boots the active partition, but does not test to see if the active partition is actually OS/2 bootmanager. Not quite. If it goes to the second drive, and finds Boot Manager, it'll boot it regardless of what is marked. -- Bob Eager rde at tavi.co.uk PC Server 325; PS/2s 8595*3, 9595*3 (2*P60 + P90), 8535, 8570,

Any Ideas About This: Windows 2000 Alters Partion Table
If you set the startable flag for another partition, the MBR will execute the boot code for that partition, not Boot Manager. You'd have to change it back before Boot Manager could be used again. This is, in fact, what has to be done after installing Windows. Mike, you are probably confusing what appears on the

How to safely delete XP partition
I would like to see that as an LVM partition is not bootable. You can only boot from an HPFS or FAT partition although the rest of the system can be LVM installed thereafter. First, a matter of terminology. On an LVM-enabled system (WSeB, MCP, ACP) you don't boot partitions - you boot volumes.

Need some GRUB help please
I have a 6.4 GB hard disk setup with the following partitions: 1: 24 MB FAT, first primary partition used to boot Windows NT. I used a public domain utility, type5to6 from Gertjan Klein to create three primary partitions. To select the primary partition to boot from, use can be made of FDISK. I use a program,

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
You told me that the "BIOS would execute the boot-record". -> Quote see previous posting. That's not a quote of something I said. It's a bad paraphrasing, taken out of context. The context being that I stated that the startable flag is how the BIOS knows which partition to boot - it's the MBR code that does this,

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
So BIOSes that do it, are hardcoded to the partition-table and imho that's bad. Boot Manager is the 'boot record' and gets control from the BIOS. No. As it was designed, there were no "bootmanagers". The "normal" MBR code looked for the active flag and gave control to the partition's boot-record of that partition

Not only partition tables, but DRAM too...
I don't think that NTbootloader will be able to load win98 because the second partition needs to be made active so it will be C:\ . I was thinking of using LILO since I have more experience using it. But can NTbootloader boot win98(fat32)...??? Anyone suggestions??? Rg, Arnaud.

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
I used BCDEDIT to set the timeout to 30 seconds, and verified the setting took, but I still do not get the boot menu. Is there a way I can force the boot menu to show or am I going to have to install a second OS just to make Vista think I have a dual-boot PC? Make a small partition at the end of the drive and put

Dual booting windows (xp) and linux in the SAME partition??
The situation: Dual boot win 98 / windows 2000AS two hard disks: master C: and slave D: Win 98 is on C: Win2000 on D: C previously had 2 partitions C: and D: Win 98 was installed first, after that Win2000 was originally installed on E: Now, E: has changed into D: and I can't boot to Win2000 anymore.

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
Tom tth...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support I had two partitions on my hard drive both with win 98 then I updated to xp and xp doesn't recognize the second partition as bootable. I know you can manually set up the boot files under (system/advanced/startup settings/edit) but how?

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
I plan to leave my operation and boot files on the 100g in an 8G partition booting from the VIA IDE connector. I have 2 40g partitions on that drive I plan to put a removable tray in the system that will hold a 40g HD just to backup the primary boot partition and the other major 40g partition with my data files

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
Bob Eager rd...@spamcop.net comp os os2 misc On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:34:44, Amused <nos...@nospam.com> wrote: I think Windows simply re-writes the MBR to point to the Windows partition. Nope. It simply tweaks the 'startable' flag. Afterwards, everyone has to go and re-run OS/2 install to correct the situation so that

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
Some BIOSes won't even boot when no partition is marked active...on the primary harddrive. I would call that one buggy. BootMan on 2nd drive is afaik only possible when the LVM-MBR got installed on the drive and I don't want to know what some BIOSes do in such installations. AiR-BOOT has a real funny approach on

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
The loader can't read the NTFS drive, so OS/2 gets to be C: and there is no other drives... guess what, booting fails... Irv, the OS/2 loader does, in fact, see NTFS drives and assigns them drive letters - it just can't read or access them. In this scenario, the only bugger is the FAT32 unless you use the fat32 ifs

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
Or is that rescue disc juts a boot-disc? Well try the Slackware solution that should work. You might need to mount the partition with vi on it too to be able to use that, just go ahead and try it. Good luck, Eric Michael Jordan wrote: Hi, I have a 20GB hard drive set up with a 4GB partition booting WindowsNT

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Will Honea who...@codenet.net comp os os2 misc On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:12:31 UTC Irv Spalten <ispal...@us.ibm.com> wrote: Will, no all versions of the loader do, and this has caused some problems. Older Warp 3 and original Warp 4 didn't. Mixed bag really. I tend to forget that your perspective is somewhat broad.

W2K SP4 dual boot problems
Marcus Fox wrote: Defragged by boot partition using Diskeeper. Since it told me I had a fragmented swap file I set it for boot time defragmentation and also After some thought, I wondered if it was because Xp was being confused due to there being 2x boot partitions. But I've had drives with two OSes on before

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
My desktop has 4 Sure :) primaries on it, 3 OS's, all become C: and Boot Manager as well as a LOGICAL drive. My 2nd hard drive has all logicals, but I've seen many people put a primary there as well, and by default, it becomes D:. So there could be primaries on the 2nd drive as well ? I thought only one partition

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
If you read here: Bootsect Command-Line Options http://technet2.microsoft. com/WindowsVista/en/library/49ded4da-b66f-4b42-9563-04c218a1a6ac1033.mspx?mfr=true You will read: "Bootsect.exe updates the master boot code for hard disk partitions to switch between BOOTMGR and NTLDR. You can use this tool to restore the

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
The terms "system partition" and "boot volume" are used counterintuitively: we boot from the system partition and keep the operating system files in the boot volume. Each computer will have just a single system partition, even in a dual-boot system, and will have a separate boot volume for each Windows installation