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1. Dual-Booting eCS 2.1R and WinXP
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I am about to graduate from an eCS 1.0 install on a solo computer.

Hard drives have been collected and I am about to install my first dual boot with OS/2 & windows kernels since the days of a 2 gig partitioned hard drive with OS/2 2.1 and Windows 95.

The eCS IDE Channel => eComStation 1.2R (and the soon eCS 2.0) will be HPFS-installed on a 60 gig hard drive (as primary) with a 200 gig hard drive (as secondary). Thus, the eCS install can be within a primary partition on the 60 gig without a logical partition. The 200 gig hard drive provides the expansion flexibility for SVista, multimedia, etc.

The WinXP IDE Channel => An operational Win XP is on a partitioned FAT 32 hard drive (for eCS file access) with 160 gigs (as primary). WinXP is a "necessary occupational evil" due to financial planning software apps.

Question #1: What bootloader tips are appropriate?

Question #2: What dual-booting tricks would you offer?

Question #3: Does it matter whether WinXP is on IDE1 or IDE2?

Question #4: Will there be any LVM problems to recognize the WinXP hard drive?

In-depth dual-booting really hasn't been addressed here for some time, and should be useful for many eComStation users.

Date: 01 Nov, 2006 on 17:06
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2. Re:Dual-Booting eCS 2.1R and WinXP
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Personally I use Air-boot, it is a nice and easy ti use platforms neutral bootmanager that installs in the MBR.

AFAIR XP still needs a primary partition and it is smart to install XP as the first OS - otherwise the socalled intelligent installer of XP might mess things up a bit, but thats it.

Date: 01 Nov, 2006 on 19:17
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I agree with the above. However, I usually install eCS on an extended logical partition. I have seen it mentioned in the newsgroups that more than one primary paritition can confuse WinXP.
Date: 01 Nov, 2006 on 19:46
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4. Re:Dual-Booting eCS 2.1R and WinXP
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Hello:
I have a similar question.
I want to install eCs 1.2R and WindowsXP in the same hard disk.
I tried two ways and both give problems.

1º Install eCs first, and then, WindowsXP. When eCs install is finished, I mark as startable (with LVM) an empty primary partition to install WinXP there. Then, I begin Windows install with no problem but, at the first re-initialization in the Windows install process, Windows doesen't boot, and does not continue with the installation process. The only solution is to create a new partition with the Windows installation tool, so Windows overwrites boot sectors or mbr. Then, it boots and installs properly. But from then, LVM detects an error that prevents it to make any modification, although boot manager works properly.

2º Install WindowsXP first, then eCs. This way, Windows installs with no problems, but eCs doesn't install, because I must mark a partition installable, but LVM detects the same error as above that prevents it to make any modification, and no partition can be marked as installable.

Is there a way to install both operating systems without getting the error from LVM?.

Antonio Serrano
Greetings from Málaga, Spain.

Date: 22 Feb, 2007 on 12:13
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5. Re:Dual-Booting eCS 2.1R and WinXP
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I haven't installed eCS and XP on the same machine but I have some experience with eCS and Neanderthal Technology I can recommend the following:

1. Try the OS/2 boot manager which comes with the eCS.
2. Start eCS installation and create a *single* partition for the XP using the OS/2 FDISK. You can mark it installable and startable so that FDISK will not complain.Quit the installation. The rest of your HD will be free.
3. Install XP on the partition prepared in (2). This way, winblows will have no chance to clobber other partitions because there are no other partitions on the disk.
4. Install eCS: Install boot manager, create eCS partition, mark both the XP and eCS partitions bootable.

This will pass in the case, for example, winblows 2000 and eCS. Whether you will pass with XP and eCS I don't know.

As far as the fatal errors reported from the LVM are considered, I have seen that, too, when I tried to install wlnblows NT and eCS on the same disk and allowed the winblows to create its partition itself.
Most likely, winblows foul the mbr to such extent that the LVM refuses having anything common with such disk. I had to return to DOS 5 FDISK for deleting the winblows partition from the disk and persuade LVM to look at the disk again. Nothing else succeeded

Date: 22 Feb, 2007 on 13:22
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I assume it would be the same if one is dual booting eComStation and ReactOS?

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Date: 22 Feb, 2007 on 15:12
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Is there a way to install eCs once windowsXP is installled?. I don't want to have to delete the windows partition and reinstall everything again. Or, Is there a free and reliable way to backup the whole windowsXP system (OS+programs+data) and restore it?. Could be useful the linux "tar" command?, How would be it used?.
Thank you for your interest.

Antonio Serrano
Greetings form Málaga, Spain.

Date: 22 Feb, 2007 on 15:34
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8. Re:Dual-Booting eCS 2.1R and WinXP
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If you are getting the fatal errors from LVM then I doubt you will be successful LVM will not allow you to operate your HD so that you cannot create a partition for the eCS. Even if you succeed with smuggling eCS on your HD somehow, the system will be unstable because the HD isn't acceptable for it.

Perhaps, dfsee could help somehow - by making the XP partition more acceptable for the LVM, at least temporarily, during the eCS installation.
It would have to be winblows dfsee. I have no experience with such manipulations so that I cannot help more

I think the simplest way woud be starting from sctatch

Date: 22 Feb, 2007 on 17:11
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9. Re:Dual-Booting eCS 2.1R and WinXP
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Hi all,

from my personal experience, it might be a different approach depending on whether XP and eCS share the same physical device or not - but basically, it all boils down to having AiR-Boot!

FWIW - what I do is:
Install windows first from scratch, leaving enough space for eCS drives. Once windows is running, I'll be installing eCS.

Here, I use a small primary partition for the OS.
To get rid of the LMV error in that situation (XP already installed) I recommend...:

http://www.ecomstation.com/edp/mod.php?mod=faq&op=show_answer&faq_id=524

What usually happens at that point is that XP isn't visible anymore and only eCS is starting - OK, there's no boot manager... maybe YMMV and there's different problems - who cares? Because: Now it's time for AiR-Boot!

Within AiR-Boot (installed as last step from within eCS either installed and up running or from bootable CD) I make sure that neither eCS can see XP nor vice versa - at least in matters of their corresponding primary partitions.
If ever they need to share data, they'll have a network drive assigned for that either by means of a real fileserver or a NAS device or thumb drives or -sigh- a FAT32 partition (or even Fat16) on a local disk which they can access.

I know it might not cover all possible combinations but I HTH to some extent at least...

If someone wants to know the detailed settings of my AiR-Boot setup, he/she will have to wait until I get back home...

I have seen lots of bootmanagers during the last decade and to me, there is nothing as good as AiR-boot (at least for my needs). It's neat, slim, snappy and easy to understand. I must admit that I don't have any Linux installed as bootable OS via AiR-Boot... so from that perspective, I can't tell whether it STILL is that perfect then... but I would be more than surprised if there were any issues.

Greetings
Thomas

Date: 22 Feb, 2007 on 17:24
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10. Re:Dual-Booting eCS 2.1R and WinXP
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Hola Antonio,


aasdelat (22 Feb, 2007 16:36):
Is there a way to install eCs once windowsXP is installled?. I don't want to have to delete the windows partition and reinstall everything again. Or, Is there a free and reliable way to backup the whole windowsXP system (OS+programs+data) and restore it?. Could be useful the linux "tar" command?, How would be it used?.
Thank you for your interest.

Antonio Serrano
Greetings form Málaga, Spain.


...as for your problems with LVM in your previous post - please note my above message with the link to the eCS forum.

HTH, saludos,
Thomas

Date: 22 Feb, 2007 on 17:31
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Thank you very very very much. This will help me a lot. I will do everything you tell me and, then, I'll tell you the results.

Antonio Serrano
Málaga, Spain.

Date: 22 Feb, 2007 on 23:14
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aasdelat (22 Feb, 2007 16:36):
Is there a way to install eCs once windowsXP is installled?. I don't want to have to delete the windows partition and reinstall everything again. Or, Is there a free and reliable way to backup the whole windowsXP system (OS+programs+data) and restore it?. Could be useful the linux "tar" command?, How would be it used?.
Thank you for your interest.

Antonio Serrano
Greetings form Málaga, Spain.


I use a program called Partition Commander. You boot from its CDROM, shrink the WInXP partition, and can be used to create more partitions for eCS and Windows to share data. I have use it with two different laptops and had no problem with the parititions. However, on the first, I had to make eCS a logical partition before the install would complete. As a result, I always install eCS to a logical partition without problems.

David

Date: 23 Feb, 2007 on 07:10
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Thank you you too.

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Date: 23 Feb, 2007 on 08:38
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Terry (01 Nov, 2006 17:06):

[...]
The eCS IDE Channel => eComStation 1.2R (and the soon eCS 2.0)
will be HPFS-installed on a 60 gig hard drive (as primary) with a
200 gig hard drive (as secondary). Thus, the eCS install can be
within a primary partition on the 60 gig without a logical
partition. The 200 gig hard drive provides the expansion
flexibility for SVista, multimedia, etc.

The WinXP IDE Channel => An operational Win XP is on a
partitioned FAT 32 hard drive (for eCS file access) with 160 gigs
(as primary). WinXP is a "necessary occupational evil" due to
financial planning software apps.


You will avoid much frustration if you, as an instance, allocate
your first hard disk to WinXX primary partitions and (possibly)
LVM-enabled Boot Manager (BM); instead of allocating your second
IDE hard disk (whatever size it may be) to WinXX. OS/2 (and
Linux) will live "happy" on logical partitions.

Consequently, below is a suggestion that leaves the primary IDE
for your WinXX version(s) (and possibly Vista):

After you connect your hard disks, boot with your bootable media
to the LVM utility. You can do so by booting to a command prompt
and proceed to type F3. As mentioned to OriAl (<
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/ultraboard/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=61&TID=1712&P=1#ID1712 >), depending on where your manual LVM
files are located in your eCS bootable media, change directory to
that location and enter:

LVM.EXE /SI:FS/SIZE:120

Once inside of the LVM utility, observe the label at the top:

1) Logical Volume management Tool -Logical View

If your IDE (and or SCSI) hard disks have not been exposed to
LVM-enabled BM, you will simply see temporary placeholders for
removable media devices.

Pressing F5, you will be taken to the physical view of your
hardware. Note the emphasis label at the top:

2) Logical Volume management Tool -Physical View

Pressing TAB, a user will be taken to create an
3)
primary and/or logical partition.

It must be noted that when creating a Primary partition, the
default action is to allocate space from the beginning of the
first free space encountered; notwithstanding, when creating a
Logical partition, the default is to allocate from the end of the
free hard disk space. Consequently, if an user is to have more
control over the partitioning scheme, the physical view is the
way to go. Later the partitions can be assigned to a Logical
Volume as we will be doing.

4) Hence a Primary partition is selected

5)
...to be created at the beginning of the free space

6)
The partition is labeled and a
size for the primary partition is entered if
desired
.

7) And we are done with the
first partition
Note that since the physical partition has not been assigned to an LVM entity it is "Available."


The same procedure is applied
to the remaining section of the hard disk

9)
Hence the physical aspect
for the first hard disk entity is done
Reiterating, both primary partitions are "Available" because they have not been assigned to an LVM entity.

10) Now, pressing F5 again, we are returned to the logical
view --Boot Manager needs to be installed if not already
done
-- and it can be seen that we still need to
assign the primary partitions we created to the Logical Volume
Manager. This situation is analogous to that where there were
previous partitions in the hard disk and we needed to have LVM
"see" those.

11)
Noting that BM intrinsic properties
guide it to be installed on the first free space it encounters,
it installs itself at the beginning of the second IDE hard
disk
since ALL of the first IDE hard disk is taken. The assertion can be verified by pressing F5 again to return to the Physical View and proceeding to select D1, i.e., the second IDE hard disk.

12)
We press F5 again and
proceed to assign the first primary partition to an LVM
entity

13)
The LVM entity has to be
Bootable, a drive letter is assigned to it, and also a
label

14)
The utility prompts us
for the physical hard disk unit to be selected
.


15)
Needless to say, we
select D0, since there is the first (or existing) primary
partition that we want to add
.

16)
Since we are selecting
an existing partition we simply verify that the default
information is correct
.


Terry (01 Nov, 2006 17:06):
Question #1: What bootloader tips are appropriate?

Leverage the intrinsic qualities of each operating system you
may already have and/or will be installing.

As mentioned previously, WinXX can best be accommodated in
primary partitions -as Tex an Flywheel asserted. Consequently,
if you will be installing Vista later, allocate with your OS/2
LVM utility two primary Volumes in your first hard disk for those
--either the 60Gb or the 200Gb.

Leaving those two predatory operating systems in your first hard
disk will avoid you potential headaches later as you require more
flexibility.

Note that the flexibility provided by the OS/2 LVM-enabled Boot
Manager can allow you mostly any combination but consider
candidly your technical proficiency. By reading some replies, it
appears to me that not many people appreciate the power of the
OS/2 LVM-enabled Boot Manager.

Consequently, and placing emphasis on the intrinsic qualities of
the OS/2, think about placing it in a logical partition on your
secondary IDE attached hard disk. From there you can manage all
your first IDE primary partitions and allocate space for their
needs using LVM from within OS/2.

For instance, (unless you were
JoannaRutkowska, of course) due to the tendency for
infection/corruption of the MS offerings, from your OS/2 second
IDE hard disk you might recover when WinXX/Vista go down with
viruses/rootkits/hijackings and/or, of course,
Joanna's anticipated Blue Pill attacks.


Terry (01 Nov, 2006 17:06):
Question #2: What dual-booting tricks would you offer?

You may install OS/2's LVM-enabled Boot manager at the start of
your first hard disk. It may be installed at the end of your
first hard disk or at the beginning of your second hard disk.
Notwithstanding, consider seriously your technical abilities and
--to make your future manipulations easier-- put it at the
beginning of your first hard disk.

If you already have a WinXX partition covering the start of your
hard disk you might consider installing BM on the second hard
disk or even at the end of your first hard disk.

Leveraging the OS/2 LVM-enabled Boot Manger intrinsic tendency to
install itself on the first free space it encounters, you might
"trick it" to install on the second hard disk if you first create
(even if temporarily) a partition(s) covering your whole first
hard disk.


Terry (01 Nov, 2006 17:06):
Question #3: Does it matter whether WinXP is on IDE1 or IDE2?

As mentioned previously by several people, you will make your
life easier if you install it on the first hard disk on a primary
partition.


Terry (01 Nov, 2006 17:06):
Question #4: Will there be any LVM problems to recognize the
WinXP hard drive?

If your WinXX is an already existent entity in your hard disk you
may add it to LVM-enabled BM by the procedure stated throughout
this post. And it will boot from your BM.

If you will be installing your WinXX AFTER you have installed
your OS/2, you need to make some changes to the WinXX hidden
file BOOT.INI

As some people noted in this thread, even if you allocate the
WinXX primary partition from your LVM utility, on the reboot for
the second phase of the WinXX installation the WinXX install
utility will sometimes/often refuse to proceed.

This is one of the reasons that even if a user is to have an NTFS
WinXX in a multiboot environment, s/he needs to format in FAT32
initially, so as to have easier access to modifying the file
BOOT.INI in the root directory of their WinXX drive.

Opening that file in a text editor on the first phase of the
WinXX installation, you will see something like:

---------------------------------------------------------

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="MicrosoftWindowsXPProfessional"/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn

----------------------------------------------------------

Note especially the timeout= directive and if needed increase the
time in seconds to allow you to select which partition to boot
upon your second phase of the WinXX installation.

Additionally, note the partition(1) under [operating systems]

It is often the case that on the WinXX reboot to proceed to the
second phase of installation, Boot Manager will be assigned that
partition(1) and WinXX partition will become partition(2).
Consequently, an user will not be able to continue the second
phase of the WinXX installation.

A workaround is to modify the BOOT.INI file BY ADDING that second
partition after the initial partition(1) as follows:

--------------------------------------------------------------

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="MicrosoftWindowsXPProfessional"/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="MicrosoftWindowsXPProfessional"/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn


---------------------------------------------------------------

With this change, an user will be able to continue her/his WinXX
second phase installation by selecting from her/his ensuing WinXX
menu partition(2) --of course, after OS/2's BM. Note that after
the WinXX installation is complete, the user simply edits the
WinXX BOOT.INI file to reflect the partition where WinXX is
residing.



A word of warning: Often (if not always) on the initial reboot after your WinXX has completed its installation onto your hard disk --yes, even if you allocated its primary partition with LVM-enabled OS/2 Boot Manager-- OS/2's Boot manager will not be there upon rebooting your machine; you will see that WinXX will restart into its partition but BM will be nowhere to be seen.

In that case, all that needs to be done is reboot with the OS/2 bootable media again, enter into the LVM utility once again (as explained priorly) and --note carefully:

A1) Remove the Boot Manager, press F3 and save your changes.

A2) Reboot once again with your OS/2 bootable media and into your LVM utility and reinstal your BM. Note that you may need to add once again your bootable physical partition to an LVM entity from the logical view of the LVM utility (as shown on #12 and #13 above).


Possible shortcut to A1 & A2 above:

Often the rebooting procedure is not a necessary condition to bring back your OS/2 BM to manage your hard disk.

It is sufficient to redefine A1 above as follows:

Remove the OS/2 Boot Manager and immediately proceed to Reinstal it.

Subsequently press F3 and reboot your system. Quite possibly your BM will appear showing the menu of bootable LVM entities...and you are done!

On the other hand, if WinXX starts up instead of OS/2's BM then go back and implement the full procedure stated in the section "A word of warning."

Needless to say, the short cut to the A1 & A2 mentioned above will avoid you the extra step of assigning once again your bootable partitions to LVM units. Moreover, it saves one the trouble of reassigning to LVM units even those non-bootable Compatibiliy (read FAT, FAT32, NTFS, etc.) and JFS volumes.

On the last note, I feel the need to point out that without LVM assigned units modern OS/2 can not "see" them and LVM-enabled Boot Manager can not boot them; the physical partions may exist but to be "seen" those have to be assigned to logical LVM units.


Consequently, there is no need to use any other hard disk
utilities and/or replace the LVM-enabled Boot Manager.

Well, evidently this suggestion also is possible in an non-
virtual setting where instead of 16Gb there is a 28Gb in the second IDE; and where instead of 200Gb there is 114Gb in the first IDE:
.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop boots from the very end of
the 114Gb Logical partition
.

And Debian from the third partition from the end of the
114GB hard disk


Terry (01 Nov, 2006 17:06):
In-depth dual-booting really hasn't been addressed here for some
time, and should be useful for many eComStation users.

What arguments are to be thrown against LVM-enabled Boot Manager

I can simply say that Boot Manager rocks !!!

Date: 24 Feb, 2007 on 00:38
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Super!!.
I prefer to use BM, but I thought it was not possible because of the problems I reported.
I can now use it thanks to you.
But you perhaps can help me in a new question. I see that it is possible to install eCs and BM before WinXP and use BM forever. But, what about if I have WinXP already installled (primary partition, beggining of the disk), and want to install eCs and BM now?. I remember you that LVM complains because of the changings made by Windows in boot sector or mbr.
Can I reverse boot record or mbr in a state like before Windows touchs it?.
Antonio Serrano.
Greetings from Málaga, Spain.
Date: 24 Feb, 2007 on 09:48
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Excellent feedback from the original questions and the new questions!

I'm reminded of "The A Team" at the end of the episode when a cigar was lit up: "Don't you just love it when the plan comes together?"

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Date: 24 Feb, 2007 on 18:37
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Super!!.
[...]
I remember you that LVM complains because of the changings made by Windows in boot sector or mbr.
Can I reverse boot record or mbr in a state like before Windows touchs it?.

You need to remove the WinXX modifications to the MBR of your hard disk and reinstall you BM as stated in my prior post section labeled: "A word of caution."

Obviously you can not undo the WinXX MBR modifications from within the OS/2 LVM utility since it is already complainig about a partitioning error.

From within your WinXX (since I assume you can boot into it) make a rescue bootable floppy. Alternatively, you may use a Win9X bootable installation disk for the procedure; or if not possible, you may even try a DOS bootable diskette.

Once you have your bootable diskette media ready, insert it into your floppy device and reboot your machine if necessary. Once the floppy media takes you into a command prompt, remove the MBR of your hard disk as follows:

FDISK /MBR

and your Master Boot Record is erased.

Proceed to reinstall your OS/2 BM as elaborated priorly.

Cheers !

Date: 24 Feb, 2007 on 22:05
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Once you have your bootable diskette media ready, insert it into your floppy device and reboot your machine if necessary. Once the floppy media takes you into a command prompt, remove the MBR of your hard disk as follows:

FDISK /MBR

and your Master Boot Record is erased.


I made this with Dos and Win95 boot floppy disk, but with no result: BM still complains.
I thought that the reason is that they don't recognice my 80 Gb hard disk, so, I booted with eCs 1.2R and executed fdisk/mbr from an old OS/2 version (3.0), but this fdisk does not have the option /mbr.
So I did the following:

1º- Backup the entire WinXP system with "Drive image XML" (http://www.runtime.org/index.html) from a WinXP bootable CD made with Bart PE (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/). The backup was stored in an external USB hard disk.

2º- Delete all partitions in the hard disk. When I did this with diskpart from the installation WindowsXP CD, I still get complaints from BM. So, I erased all partitions with "qtpared" from a bootable linux CD (I used guadalinex distribution, based on debian). This time I got no new complains from BM and since then, I only use BM to touch partitions.

3º- Create partition for windows with BM (must be greater or equal than the original that was backed up to restore it with "Dive Image XML").

4º- Restore the WinXP backup with the WinXP bootable CD.

5º- At this point, I got wat you said: WindowsXP doesn't boot because the partition it is installed on is assigned "2", and originally, it was "1". So I edited Boot.ini and changed "1" to "2". I can do this on a NTFS file system using the WinXP bootable CD.

And that's all (by now). I still have to install OS/2 and linux, but with BM not complainig any more, this will be very easy.

P.D.: There is an article in EDM2 about dual booting with OS2 and Windows Vista. I think all the things said in this thread should be ordered and put there. If nobody wants to do so, I can do it, but it is advisable that those that knows more of the subject, can correct at least what I put, for which it will be necessary to register in EDM2. Anyway, I will say that the autors are: El Vato, and WarpCafé (and anybody whose contribution I use).

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Antonio Serrano.
Greetings from Málaga, Spain.

Date: 08 Mar, 2007 on 10:34
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20. Re:Dual-Booting eCS 2.1R and WinXP
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Hola!

Good to see you have resolved the problems (despite the remaining installs that are yet to come). I would appreciate VERY much to see all the mentioned information in one place. If you vote for this thread, that's okay with me - but there's two alternatives which I think are even better suited to provide a muc higher value for the entire community:

1) Write an article - for VOICE, OS/2 e-zine, EDM or even here at os2world (whatever you prefer)

2) Put that on a wiki-based site so that others can add information to it (might also work for EDM - IIRC it's netlabs wiki behind it?)

Sorry to bother you with "work", but as you claimed to be willing to do it... just a suggestion. Don't feel forced by me!

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Thomas

Date: 08 Mar, 2007 on 11:01
Dual-Booting eCS 2.1R and WinXP
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