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I am trying to install OS/2 2.1 on the first and only primary
partition of a 1.3 GB HD.  The PC is an IBM Pentium 90.  The drive
has Boot Manager as its first partition, then a primary partition of
400 MB, and 2 logical partitions.

We have tried to simplify and automate the installation procedure as
much as possible, because it is being done on many machines, and by
people without intimate knowledge of OS/2.

In the past we have installed our system on smaller hard drives
(about 300 MB), configured with only one partition.  Because our
newer systems' drives are larger, we want to set them up with
multiple partitions.

This is the general installation procedure we've done in the past:

 Partition the disk.
 Format the drive(s).
 Copy contents of tape or Syquest cartridge to C:
 Reboot.

This worked fine with our Dell machines.  This may be because the
tape/cartridge contains a copy of drive C: on a Dell PC with OS/2 and
all our additional stuff installed.

I realize that restoring onto an IBM the contents of a Dell is not a
recommended way of installing the OS.  I have expressed this to my
client.  However, because it would take a long time to reconstruct
our drive with all the additions, configurations, and modifications
we have mode to the base OS installation, they have chosen to
continue using this method if at all possible.

Anyway, here's what happens after I try the procedure: The system
boots and just hangs with the cursor blinking in the upper left
corner of the screen.  Even when I boot from diskettes and make the
Boot Manager startable, it doesn't start up, but hangs in the same
place.  

What could be happening that would explain this behavior?  I thought
that Boot Manager would at least come up even if drive C: was not
bootable.

Thanks for any help you can offer.  (And sorry for the long message.)

- Keith
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Keith Bennett                             Bennett Business Solutions, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD USA                     OS/2 & DOS Software Development
kbennett@cpcug.org                        (301) 871-7696