John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 18 January 2004 14:49, James Knott wrote:
Well, actually IBM calls the ability to boot OS/2 or DOS from the same partition "Dual Boot".
I doubt that IBM would make such a silly mistake as suggesting you could boot OS/2 or DOS from the same partition.
No mistake.
Same disk, maybe, but not the same partition.
Same partition. It's called "dual boot", to distinguish that installation type from multiboot, where one finds the expected multiple operating systems installed to different partitions. When OS/2 was first developed, it was intended to be an upgrade path for DOS users. Dual boot was created in part to ease the transition, to provide some comfort to those in fear of giving up DOS for a new OS. Also, the earliest versions of OS/2 didn't have bulletproof DOS support, and booting DOS was necessary for running certain unsupported DOS software, such as some games, and later, M$ Windoze 3.0 on OS/2 versions that didn't include M$ Windoze support. -- "The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power." General Douglas MacArthur Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html