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Date:	Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:10:08 PST
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: FYI: Boot Manager killed by Windows 2000 install

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This was on Warpcast today. I haven't tested it.

Note that _other_ "boot managers" (System Commander, Power Boot, etc.)
may suffer the same fate.

- Peter
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WarpCast: 14 January 2000 - Caution installing Windows 2000 with Boot
Manager
Source: Rob Basler (aurorasw@direct.ca)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevor@haligonian.com)
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A number of people have reported that Windows 2000 release candidate
3, as well as Windows 2000 have a problem that they destroy the boot
manager partition on each boot such that boot manager is unable to
start afterwards. Since boot manager can't boot, the system is
unbootable, you can't even start Windows 2000.

This is not the same as the previous known problem that the Windows
install would disable Boot Manager by marking its own partition
active. With this new problem, after each boot and shutdown of
Windows 2000 you have to boot from OS/2 floppies, delete the boot
manager partition, reinstall boot manager, and add all your operating
system choices back in.

Having helped someone with this problem, and done extensive testing,
it appears that this is a problem with the checkdisk routine that
Windows 2000 runs at startup, and no matter whether you do or don't
do the repairs it recommends, it wipes out Boot Manager.

So please, take caution installing Windows 2000 on an OS/2 system
with Boot Manager, make SURE you have a set of bootable floppies that
work.

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