Re: Removing OS2 from my TP750

[Don Whiteside <dwhite@shadow.net>]

On 16 Aug 1995, Michael Verne/VENTANA wrote:

> ".....do *not* delete the boot manager!....."
> 
> It's been my experience that you can delete the boot manager partition, as long 
> as, when you reformat the primary dos partition, you make it bootable (format 
> /s).

Actually, the primary partition must ALREADY be bootable. What you need 
to do if you remove the boot manager partition is make the DOS (or 
whatever) partition _active_ (or startable, some people say). Easy to do 
from fdisk with the set-active-partition option.

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