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Hello All,

I've loaded win95 after having loaded Linux and OS/2.  I'm using the OS/2
Boot Manager.  Now the Boot Manager doesn't come up, it boots right into
Win95.  Fdisk /mbr has no effect.  How do I get OS/2 Boot Manager working
again?

Thanks in advance
Michael

This worked fine for me.
Hope this helps.
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Alivio Sincero)26 Jul 1996 14:05:58 GMT writes:

Quote:> Just use your OS/2 boot disks to load up
> OS/2, then use OS/2's FDISK to put Boot Manager back in.

Quote:> But why use Boot Manager?  Just use the Linux Loader, LILO.  For
> one thing, LILO doesn't need a whole friggin' 1MB partition (and a
> primary partition at that).

Quote:> True, LILO doesn't have the fancy menu of
> Boot Manager, but it works just as good (IMHO).

Bottom line, IMHO:  Use whatever works best and whatever you're comfortable
with.  For some people it'll be LILO, for others it'll be Boot Manager, and for
others it'll be something else.  This "my boot loader is better than yours"
debate is really even more childish than the "my OS is better than yours"
debate.

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Quote:>Hello All,

>I've loaded win95 after having loaded Linux and OS/2.  I'm using the OS/2
>Boot Manager.  Now the Boot Manager doesn't come up, it boots right into
>Win95.  Fdisk /mbr has no effect.  How do I get OS/2 Boot Manager working
>again?

>Thanks in advance
>Michael

My solution was to:
 1) boot linux (either with a floppy that you prepared earlier... or
    if you have a CD with a linux kernel and LOADLIN.EXE you can boot
    from Win95 DOS mode.)
 2) install/modify LILO to be able to boot OS/2 (from /dev/hda5 in my case)
     - /etc/lilo.conf needs to have a section "other=/dev/hda5
                                                  label=os2"
    (you could choose to install LILO on the MBR and make it your boot
        manager.  I wanted to bring back OS2 Boot Manager.)
 3) boot OS2 (by interrupting LILO and typing "os2" at the : )
 4) run OS2's FDISK and re-install Boot Manager

The LOADLIN & LILO documentation gives full details.  Best of luck.

: Hello All,
: I've loaded win95 after having loaded Linux and OS/2.  I'm using the OS/2
: Boot Manager.  Now the Boot Manager doesn't come up, it boots right into
: Win95.  Fdisk /mbr has no effect.  How do I get OS/2 Boot Manager working
: again?

        It looks like you gotta install Boot Manager again 'cause Win95
hosed it during installation.  Just use your OS/2 boot disks to load up
OS/2, then use OS/2's FDISK to put Boot Manager back in.

        But why use Boot Manager?  Just use the Linux Loader, LILO.  For
one thing, LILO doesn't need a whole friggin' 1MB partition (and a
primary partition at that).  True, LILO doesn't have the fancy menu of
Boot Manager, but it works just as good (IMHO).

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Michael,

   One of the great?? Windoze 95 features that MS slipped over on us
   is the one (don't know if it's documented) that waste's the ability
   of any other disk partition to be booted at power-up.  You will
   need to re-install the OS/2 Boot Manager and re-add your bootable
   partitions.  As yet, I haven't determined if entering Windoze 95's
   setup AFTER installation will do the same, I sure hope not.

                                      -Richard

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Quote:> > Actually, Win95 probably just set its own partition to be the bootable
> > partition; Boot Manager is likely still intact, but will never "boot."

> Nope, Win95 overwrites the MBR. Sort of Mickeysofts way of telling
> people "Who needs another OS?" ;-)

Hell, the Windows 95 install readme even tells you all of this!

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Win95 even tells you this will happen and the whole scenario is
documented in the Win95 install readme.

I know this to be the case, this is what heppened to me. Install 95,
only 95 boots. Run fdisk, reboot, boot manager appears, choose from
Win95, OS/2 or Linux. Simple!

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: > Nope, Win95 overwrites the MBR. Sort of Mickeysofts way of telling
: > people "Who needs another OS?" ;-)

: Nope that's wrong. When I installed Win95 all I had to do was run Win95's
: fdisk and reset the Boot Manager partition as the bootable partition.

I have to confirm that this is true... Win95 *may* overwrite the MBR, but
that isn't where Boot Manager is to begin with!  Boot Manager simply resides
on another [primary] partition and is set as the active partition in the
partition table.

As with MSDOS, Win95's installation program just sets its partition as the
active partition.  This effectively bypasses boot manager.  Hence, the fix
is exactly as it is for MSDOS - select the boot manager partition as the
active partition, so it gets to boot before Win95.

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