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OS/2 Boot Record Problems
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Name: Randy
Date: March 30, 2001 at 13:42:47 Pacific
Subject: OS/2 Boot Record Problems |
Comment: A system has just crossed my desk and had boot record problems... The person then grabbed a WIN98 bot disk and did a "sys a: c:" command to replace the system on the disk.. the problem is IT WAS AN OS/2 MACHINE!!! does OS/2 support some kind of SYS command like 98? if so what is it? and if not is there a way i can quickly repair the problem? I have replaced all of the other files created by the sys command but the boot record is still holding onto the other crap! thanks in advance!
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Response Number 2
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Name: chris
Date: April 3, 2001 at 05:40:15 Pacific
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Reply: fdisk /mbr only writes the MBR. I remember something like "sysinstx.exe c:" after booting from floppy.
This should write the os/2-boot-sector. Think it should be on one of the boot-/install-disks. Hope I'm wrong, but I thing it copies the kernel-file, too, but uses a wrong name (o2krnli instead of os2krnl)? Save the actual files before trying... Have to work now, perhaps I'll have a look at it later on.
bye, chris
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Response Number 3
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Name: chris
Date: April 4, 2001 at 13:06:19 Pacific
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Reply: OK, I was wrong in the last reply ;-)
sysinstx.exe IS the tool you need, but it does NOT copy the kernel after writing the boot-sector.
The original kernel on the boot-disk (floppy) is named "oskrnli". If you copy it from floppy to your boot-partition on HD, rename it to "os2krnl" after copying. Good luck,
Chris
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