Can OSS handle WXP and W2K on logicals?

[RayDav]

I have OSS 5 and DD 10. I have been using OSS 5 for several years because it is simple, even tho I have 10. With 5 I was not able to do what I want and will use 10 if that will help.

My typical desktop has a FAT16 C: primary for DOS and W2K boot files, and W2K and a couple versions of OS/2 on logicals. Every OS can access the entire physical drive. This has been working well.

I have had W2K and WXP on my laptop, both as C: primaries, and booted along with two OS/2 logicals by IBM Boot Manager. I created a FAT16 C: primary and tried to install WXP and W2K as logicals. XP and then 2K installed but 2K apparently wrote over the boot files on C:, so XP cannot boot.

Can OSS, either 5 or 10, get 2K and XP to boot from logicals?

TY
Ray

[RayDav]

It appears that I have it fixed in OSS 5. W2K was added to the BOOT.INI that was picked up for WXP. Also the partition number for XP was entered as 5 when it should have been 6. Also there were on-line updates of the other boot files which went looking for the wrong files. Once I got all the proper files in place it boots fine.

Ray

[cortez]

-{ Quote: " Also the partition number for XP was entered as 5 when it should have been 6. Also there were on-line updates of the other boot files which went looking for the wrong files. Once I got all the proper files in place it boots fine.

Ray" }-

This is a common and constant problem in multi-booting where the boot.ini files are not pointing to the correct partition.

In my experience it is best to boot up the rescue disk of DD10 and correct the boot.ini file from there.

If one is not accustomed to this problem re-installing seems to be the only option as correcting the boot.ini file from within Windows is often impossible for some strange reason, especially when Windows 2000 is thrown into the mix.

This happens also with multi XP's, but less so than when Windows 2000 is one of the OS's.

[RayDav]

-{ Quote: "
In my experience it is best to boot up the rescue disk of DD10 and correct the boot.ini file from there.

If one is not accustomed to this problem re-installing seems to be the only option as correcting the boot.ini file from within Windows is often impossible for some strange reason, especially when Windows 2000 is thrown into the mix.

" }-

That is one reason I keep a DOS installation on C:. I worked on the files from within the BOOTWIZ directory.