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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:02:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@csrlink.net>
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Subject: Re: upgrade question
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Rick Knebel wrote:

> Hi,
> I have just upgraded from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 with the help of some people from
> this list without difficulty. One stange thing happened though and I was
> curious if anyone had any ideas.
> I have two hard drives. 
> #1 has OS2 and linux aand number 2 has freebsd.
> I use the os2 boot manager to boot my different OS's.
> When I was done with the upgrade it told me to remove the floopy and then
> reboot. When I did this it would go through my typical boot process but then
> right before boot manager would come up, I would get a prompt that said
> press any key to reboot.
> I had to use my os2 bootup disc and what solved the problem was reinstalling
> os2 boot manager.
> Everything worked fine after that.
> Can anyone think of a reason why this upgrade should give me this problem
> when boot manager is not on the same disc as freebsd.

The active partition bit may have been reset and something wasn't happy.  

If you had the OS/2 manager already installed, you didn't need to install
a new one.  You overwrote it anyway so that was the correct thing to do. 


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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