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Name: Pat
Date: September 9, 2002 at 15:51:36 Pacific
Subject: Boot Manager Woes
OS: OS/2 WSeB
CPU/Ram: dual P3 / 512M
Comment:

I am experiencing some really strange behavior with boot manager.

I recently added a new 36GB hard drive to my system, which is attached to an Adaptec 2940U2W controller along with two other 9GB drives.

On one of those 9GB drives contains a boot manager partition, OS/2 WSeB and Win95 OSR2.

The old boot drive (with boot manager & OS/2) has a SCSI ID of 1, while my new drive has a SCSI ID of 0. The new drive has been formatted with Win2K server and everything on that partition works just fine.

Yesterday I was able to switch the boot drive in the adaptec setup menu to switch from booting OS/2 to Win2K.

However, today no matter what the adaptec card is set to (scsi id 0), it boots the os/2 boot manager, even though it should be picking up the windows 2000 installation since its the first drive in the system and is also the boot drive in the adaptec menu.

What could have caused this? Is there any way to fix this problem? I need to switch back and forth between the two operating systems, but right now the only way I can get into win2k is to unplug the drive that boot manager resides on.

If anybody has any clues about this I'd really appreciate the help!


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Name: Peter
Date: September 11, 2002 at 10:20:46 Pacific
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Make sure you have SP2 on that W2K machine... I kept toasting my boot manager...


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