[WarpCast] Win2000 Killing OS/2 Boot Manager - 3/16/00 |
PMView 2000: The ultimate in image viewing PMView 2.0 is now PMView 2000! See http://www.pmview.com/ for details ********************************************************************* Source: Bob Bencivenga (benji00@mediaone.net) Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevor@haligonian.com) ------------------------------------------------------- Since the release of Win2000 there has been alot of discussion about how Win2000 will kill the BM for OS/2 every time you boot Win2000. In looking through the news groups today I stumbled across this bit of news which should help everybody. The following is the text of how to fix it. Windows 2000 RC2 did not destroy Boot Manager the way the final release version does. The problem has been traced to a single Win2000 file. The file is FASTFAT.SYS. It lives in the WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS directory and the WINNT\SYSTEM32\DLLCACHE directoy. What you need to do is copy this file from a Win2000 RC2 (possibly earlier version also - I don't know) install onto your Win2000 final version install above directories. You need to copy it to DLLCACHE first. This is a hidden directory, so you need to go to a command prompt and CD to it. Rename the original one first and then copy the RC2 version there. You will get an error message box about a system file being changed. Press CANCEL. Now copy the file into the DRIVERS directory. These directions assume you are doing the coping under Win2000. I guess if you do it under OS/2 it might be easier, I dunno. I did it under Win2000 because it's installed on a FAT32 partition so OS/2 can't see it. Anyways, reboot with your OS/2 install disks and re-install the Boot Manager. You can also add Win2000 to the Boot Manager. Now, when you boot Win2000, BM is no longer destroyed. ------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or for more information on WarpCast, visit: http://www.warpcast.com/ -------------------------------------------------------