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OS2 Warp 4.52 "vdi2hardware" result

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mauro:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on June 06, 2021, 06:36:19 pm ---Hi Mauro, you can not boot OS/2 from a USB stick, the USB drivers load too late in the boot process and your message about not being able to operate the hard drive is accurate. Installers get around this by creating a ramdisk, copying to that and then booting from the ram drive.
As Olafur says, you need to copy your image to the hard drive, keeping the geometry correct and boot from that, which should work with the problems of drivers (usually the networks) not loading and needing to press enter to continue. This can fail during part of the boot as the USB keyboard is not available.

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... Hi Dave, sorry for going back to this, what about cloning this USB volume on an internal disk partition ? Could OS2 boot from there (ideally)?

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: mauro on July 04, 2021, 10:30:22 am ---... Hi Dave, sorry for going back to this, what about cloning this USB volume on an internal disk partition ? Could OS2 boot from there (ideally)?

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Should work as long as the geometry of the partition is correct and the LVM info carries over, mostly the drive letter. The LVM info might not be so important if it is drive C:
Creating the partition with OS/2 aware tools and then xcopying the files it might be better.

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