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We've tested OS/2 Warp 4.52 with Super Socket 7 [1998] on 86Box!

#OS2 #OS2Warp #OS2Warp4 #IBM #Retrocomputing #Computers #TechNews #TechUpdates #ComputerHistory

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/os-2-warp-4-52-on-86box-with-super-socket-7-1998/

We've tested OS/2 Warp 4.52 with Super Socket 7 [1998] on 86Box!

#OS2 #OS2Warp #OS2Warp4 #IBM #Retrocomputing #Computers #TechNews #TechUpdates #ComputerHistory

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/os-2-warp-4-52-on-86box-with-super-socket-7-1998/

We've tested OS/2 Warp 4.52 with Super Socket 7 [1998] on 86Box!

#OS2 #OS2Warp #OS2Warp4 #IBM #Retrocomputing #Computers #TechNews #TechUpdates #ComputerHistory

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/os-2-warp-4-52-on-86box-with-super-socket-7-1998/

We've tested OS/2 Warp 4.52 with Super Socket 7 [1998] on 86Box!

#OS2 #OS2Warp #OS2Warp4 #IBM #Retrocomputing #Computers #TechNews #TechUpdates #ComputerHistory

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/os-2-warp-4-52-on-86box-with-super-socket-7-1998/

We've tested OS/2 Warp 4.52 with Super Socket 7 [1998] on 86Box!

#OS2 #OS2Warp #OS2Warp4 #IBM #Retrocomputing #Computers #TechNews #TechUpdates #ComputerHistory

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/os-2-warp-4-52-on-86box-with-super-socket-7-1998/

OS/2 Warp 4.52 on 86Box with Super Socket 7 [1998]

OS/2 was a proprietary operating system that was initially developed by IBM in partnership with Microsoft as a replacement of DOS before it became entirely developed by IBM. OS/2 Warp 4 was officially released in 1996, and development slowed down to a halt because it failed to compete Microsoft Windows. OS/2 Warp 4.52 was officially released in December 2001, and this year, it will celebrate its 25th year anniversary.

Our focus in this article is testing OS/2 Warp 4.52 on an 86Box emulated machine with a Super Socket 7 [1998] motherboard. You can download it from here.

We’ve configured the virtual machine as follows:

We’ve configured a virtual machine to run with:

• Machine type: [1998] Super Socket 7
• Machine: [SiS 5591] Gigabyte GA-5SG100
• CPU: Intel Pentium @ 166 MHz
• Memory: 128 MB
• Video: [ISA16] Cirrus Logic GD5434
• Keyboard: AT Keyboard
• Mouse: PS/2 Mouse
• Sound card: [ISA16] Sound Blaster 16 PnP
• Floppy disk controller: Internal device
• Hard disk controller 1: Internal device
• New hard disk: os2warp452.vhd
  • C/H/S: 1054/16/63
  • Size: 518 MB
  • Bus: IDE
  • Channel: 0:0
• CD-ROM drive 1: ATAPI (0:1) KENWOOD CD-ROM UCR-421 208E (72x)

Once everything is configured as above, we can now start the virtual machine. Insert the boot disc called mcp2-refresh-boot-en.iso to the CD-ROM reader, then configure BIOS as necessary.

To be more specific, we need to go to the BIOS setup using DEL and change the boot order so that CD-ROM goes first with PGUP/PGDN.

After that, we save the changes and restart the virtual machine.

The installer starts by telling you to insert the installation CD-ROM to the drive.

In this case, right-click on the CD-ROM icon, select “Insert…”, select mcp2-refresh-install-en.iso, and double-click it. Then, press ENTER.

After that, you should be able to see this welcome screen:

Press ENTER, and you’ll be taken to another screen that welcomes you to the operating system installer.

Press ENTER. At this point, since it’s a fresh installation, and the hard drive is already empty, you’ll get the “Volumes Too Small” message. This means that you’ll need to create a single partition that will be used to install OS/2 Warp 4.52 to.

Press ENTER, and you’ll get a warning message telling you that all data on modified volumes will be deleted, and that backups should be made. Since there is no data on the hard drive, you can safely ignore this warning. Just press ENTER.

After that, you’ll be taken to the partitioning screen where you’ll be presented with the logical volume manager, with the logical view being the default. Press F5, and you’ll be taken to a screen where you can see your hard disk, such as the below screenshot:

Here, you can create a physical partition. Press TAB, then ENTER, and you’ll be presented with those options.

Press ENTER to create a new partition. You’ll be asked whether this partition is going to be logical or primary. Select “Primary partition”.

After you select it, you’ll be presented with various dialog boxes telling you to specify the size and the name of the partition, as well as the position of the partition. Select “Create at the start of the free space”, then enter the partition name, then the size.

After that, this partition should be created.

We are not done yet when it comes to partitioning, so we need to go back to the logical view. Press ENTER, then press ENTER on “Create a new volume”. Then, select “Create a volume that can be made bootable”, then C:.

You’ll be brought back to the physical view that will tell you to choose a physical disk. Below the physical disk, the logical partition should be shown at the bottom of the screen. Press ENTER when this dialog box appears.

Press ENTER again, then select “Use existing partition”.

Now, a new logical volume will appear with the partition name that you’ve chosen. However, it’s still not ready yet for installation, since there are extra steps that are needed. We need to make it installable.

Press ENTER, and you should see the menu box below:

Select “Set the volume installable”. The status of your logical volume should change from “Startable” to “Installable”. Afterwards, press F3, and press ENTER when “Save the changes and exit” is highlighted.

Afterwards, you should be able to see the below dialog box telling you to insert the boot CD-ROM to the drive and restart the virtual machine using CTRL + ALT + DEL.

At this point, we need to change the BIOS boot order to avoid the black screen issue. Press DEL, go to BIOS Features Setup, and change the boot order so that CD-ROM goes first.

Then, exit the BIOS setup while saving changes, and follow the instructions all the way until the following screen shows up:

Verify that “Volume C” shows up. If not, you’ll have to configure the partitions again until the volume shows up in this screen. Since we’ve already configured everything, and that Volume C corresponds to our hard disk, press ENTER when “Accept the volume” is highlighted.

Then, the installer asked us whether we’d like to format it slowly or quickly. This is a clean installation, so we’ve chosen a quick format. Then, the installer asked us whether we’d like to use FAT or HPFS. We’ve chosen the HPFS file system.

After that, the installation of the base system begins.

After that, the virtual machine will automatically restart. Go back to the BIOS setup and make sure that the C drive comes first before the CD-ROM.

After that, OS/2 Warp should boot up to the GUI portion of the installer. The first thing you’ll be presented with is the configuration of the system, including the country, the graphics adapter, and the sound adapter.

First of all, we went to “Multimedia Device Support”, and added the SoundBlaster 16 PnP device to the list of installed devices.

Afterwards, we’re presented with another set of configuration, once we’ve selected “Next”. SInce there’s no need to configure anything on that screen, we’ve just clicked Next. Then, it presented us with options to choose the country/region, with the default selected country being “United States.”

Then, the printer configuraion window has shown up. SInce there’s no printer installed, we’ll leave it as it is.

We’re then presented with the graphics adapter configuration. It automatically selected the Cirrus Logic graphics adapter as we’ve chosen earlier for the virtual machine configuration.

Once we’ve selected OK, we’re then presented with a set of packages to install.

As soon as we clicked “Next”, we’re presented with another wizard that lets us configure some more services.

Once we clicked Next, we’re presented with a prompt to identify ourselves.

After that, we’re given another set of software packages to install. They represent the client services for OS/2.

Once we clicked Next, we’re presented with another configuration screen where we needed to configure the user ID and password for the file and print sharing services, and the network adapter and protocol services.

We went to create a new ID and a password for the sharing service

Then, we went to “Network Adapters and Protocol Services”, and a dialog box that told us to add a network adapter appeared. Since we don’t intend to have internet connectivity in this installation of OS/2 Warp 4.52, we’ve selected “No network adapter.”

Once we pressed OK, we’ve seen this result:

Now, we’ve pressed Install, and a confirmation dialog box appeared.

Now, the installation of the remaining system files started here.

Once it was done copying files, we’re asked whether to use the defaults for the monitor type or to use the display adapter utility program.

We’ve chosen the defaults, and an informational box appeared stating that the screen might flicker while the testing was underway.

After that, the remaining portions of the installation started. This is part one of the long waiting journey!

After the restart, depending on the region selected, OS/2 Warp 4.52 might tell you that there’s something wrong in the CONFIG.SYS file related to the codepage, just like below.

After that, the long waiting journey continues…

The system then restarted, and the desktop finally appeared, but with another dialog box asking us whether we needed to install sets of extra tools or not.

We’ve chosen the biggest option, which was “OS/2 Toolkit (English only)”. Then, we’ve clicked on Install once we’ve inserted the boot disk back to the CD-ROM drive.

Then, a configuration window where it tells us to configure the installation of the OS/2 Toolkit, just like below.

We’ve chosen to install everything, so we just chose Install. Yet another long wait journey starts…

After the installation of the toolkit reached 100%, a dialog box that told us that the installation was successful showed up. Once done, we’ve clicked on Quit in the toolkit installer.

Since the dialog box told us that the CONFIG.SYS file was modified and that we needed to restart the virtual machine. Therefore, we’ve clicked on Exit, then right-clicked on an empty area around the desktop and chose “Shut down”.

Once the shut down was done, we had to press CTRL + ALT + DEL in the virtual machine side. After that, the system booted up to the desktop, and the sound works!

Nostalgic, isn’t it?

OS/2 Warp 4.52 on 86Box with Super Socket 7 [1998]

OS/2 was a proprietary operating system that was initially developed by IBM in partnership with Microsoft as a replacement of DOS before it became entirely developed by IBM. OS/2 Warp 4 was officially released in 1996, and development slowed down to a halt because it failed to compete Microsoft Windows. OS/2 Warp 4.52 was officially released in December 2001, and this year, it will celebrate its 25th year anniversary.

Our focus in this article is testing OS/2 Warp 4.52 on an 86Box emulated machine with a Super Socket 7 [1998] motherboard. You can download it from here.

We’ve configured the virtual machine as follows:

We’ve configured a virtual machine to run with:

• Machine type: [1998] Super Socket 7
• Machine: [SiS 5591] Gigabyte GA-5SG100
• CPU: Intel Pentium @ 166 MHz
• Memory: 128 MB
• Video: [ISA16] Cirrus Logic GD5434
• Keyboard: AT Keyboard
• Mouse: PS/2 Mouse
• Sound card: [ISA16] Sound Blaster 16 PnP
• Floppy disk controller: Internal device
• Hard disk controller 1: Internal device
• New hard disk: os2warp452.vhd
  • C/H/S: 1054/16/63
  • Size: 518 MB
  • Bus: IDE
  • Channel: 0:0
• CD-ROM drive 1: ATAPI (0:1) KENWOOD CD-ROM UCR-421 208E (72x)

Once everything is configured as above, we can now start the virtual machine. Insert the boot disc called mcp2-refresh-boot-en.iso to the CD-ROM reader, then configure BIOS as necessary.

To be more specific, we need to go to the BIOS setup using DEL and change the boot order so that CD-ROM goes first with PGUP/PGDN.

After that, we save the changes and restart the virtual machine.

The installer starts by telling you to insert the installation CD-ROM to the drive.

In this case, right-click on the CD-ROM icon, select “Insert…”, select mcp2-refresh-install-en.iso, and double-click it. Then, press ENTER.

After that, you should be able to see this welcome screen:

Press ENTER, and you’ll be taken to another screen that welcomes you to the operating system installer.

Press ENTER. At this point, since it’s a fresh installation, and the hard drive is already empty, you’ll get the “Volumes Too Small” message. This means that you’ll need to create a single partition that will be used to install OS/2 Warp 4.52 to.

Press ENTER, and you’ll get a warning message telling you that all data on modified volumes will be deleted, and that backups should be made. Since there is no data on the hard drive, you can safely ignore this warning. Just press ENTER.

After that, you’ll be taken to the partitioning screen where you’ll be presented with the logical volume manager, with the logical view being the default. Press F5, and you’ll be taken to a screen where you can see your hard disk, such as the below screenshot:

Here, you can create a physical partition. Press TAB, then ENTER, and you’ll be presented with those options.

Press ENTER to create a new partition. You’ll be asked whether this partition is going to be logical or primary. Select “Primary partition”.

After you select it, you’ll be presented with various dialog boxes telling you to specify the size and the name of the partition, as well as the position of the partition. Select “Create at the start of the free space”, then enter the partition name, then the size.

After that, this partition should be created.

We are not done yet when it comes to partitioning, so we need to go back to the logical view. Press ENTER, then press ENTER on “Create a new volume”. Then, select “Create a volume that can be made bootable”, then C:.

You’ll be brought back to the physical view that will tell you to choose a physical disk. Below the physical disk, the logical partition should be shown at the bottom of the screen. Press ENTER when this dialog box appears.

Press ENTER again, then select “Use existing partition”.

Now, a new logical volume will appear with the partition name that you’ve chosen. However, it’s still not ready yet for installation, since there are extra steps that are needed. We need to make it installable.

Press ENTER, and you should see the menu box below:

Select “Set the volume installable”. The status of your logical volume should change from “Startable” to “Installable”. Afterwards, press F3, and press ENTER when “Save the changes and exit” is highlighted.

Afterwards, you should be able to see the below dialog box telling you to insert the boot CD-ROM to the drive and restart the virtual machine using CTRL + ALT + DEL.

At this point, we need to change the BIOS boot order to avoid the black screen issue. Press DEL, go to BIOS Features Setup, and change the boot order so that CD-ROM goes first.

Then, exit the BIOS setup while saving changes, and follow the instructions all the way until the following screen shows up:

Verify that “Volume C” shows up. If not, you’ll have to configure the partitions again until the volume shows up in this screen. Since we’ve already configured everything, and that Volume C corresponds to our hard disk, press ENTER when “Accept the volume” is highlighted.

Then, the installer asked us whether we’d like to format it slowly or quickly. This is a clean installation, so we’ve chosen a quick format. Then, the installer asked us whether we’d like to use FAT or HPFS. We’ve chosen the HPFS file system.

After that, the installation of the base system begins.

After that, the virtual machine will automatically restart. Go back to the BIOS setup and make sure that the C drive comes first before the CD-ROM.

After that, OS/2 Warp should boot up to the GUI portion of the installer. The first thing you’ll be presented with is the configuration of the system, including the country, the graphics adapter, and the sound adapter.

First of all, we went to “Multimedia Device Support”, and added the SoundBlaster 16 PnP device to the list of installed devices.

Afterwards, we’re presented with another set of configuration, once we’ve selected “Next”. SInce there’s no need to configure anything on that screen, we’ve just clicked Next. Then, it presented us with options to choose the country/region, with the default selected country being “United States.”

Then, the printer configuraion window has shown up. SInce there’s no printer installed, we’ll leave it as it is.

We’re then presented with the graphics adapter configuration. It automatically selected the Cirrus Logic graphics adapter as we’ve chosen earlier for the virtual machine configuration.

Once we’ve selected OK, we’re then presented with a set of packages to install.

As soon as we clicked “Next”, we’re presented with another wizard that lets us configure some more services.

Once we clicked Next, we’re presented with a prompt to identify ourselves.

After that, we’re given another set of software packages to install. They represent the client services for OS/2.

Once we clicked Next, we’re presented with another configuration screen where we needed to configure the user ID and password for the file and print sharing services, and the network adapter and protocol services.

We went to create a new ID and a password for the sharing service

Then, we went to “Network Adapters and Protocol Services”, and a dialog box that told us to add a network adapter appeared. Since we don’t intend to have internet connectivity in this installation of OS/2 Warp 4.52, we’ve selected “No network adapter.”

Once we pressed OK, we’ve seen this result:

Now, we’ve pressed Install, and a confirmation dialog box appeared.

Now, the installation of the remaining system files started here.

Once it was done copying files, we’re asked whether to use the defaults for the monitor type or to use the display adapter utility program.

We’ve chosen the defaults, and an informational box appeared stating that the screen might flicker while the testing was underway.

After that, the remaining portions of the installation started. This is part one of the long waiting journey!

After the restart, depending on the region selected, OS/2 Warp 4.52 might tell you that there’s something wrong in the CONFIG.SYS file related to the codepage, just like below.

After that, the long waiting journey continues…

The system then restarted, and the desktop finally appeared, but with another dialog box asking us whether we needed to install sets of extra tools or not.

We’ve chosen the biggest option, which was “OS/2 Toolkit (English only)”. Then, we’ve clicked on Install once we’ve inserted the boot disk back to the CD-ROM drive.

Then, a configuration window where it tells us to configure the installation of the OS/2 Toolkit, just like below.

We’ve chosen to install everything, so we just chose Install. Yet another long wait journey starts…

After the installation of the toolkit reached 100%, a dialog box that told us that the installation was successful showed up. Once done, we’ve clicked on Quit in the toolkit installer.

Since the dialog box told us that the CONFIG.SYS file was modified and that we needed to restart the virtual machine. Therefore, we’ve clicked on Exit, then right-clicked on an empty area around the desktop and chose “Shut down”.

Once the shut down was done, we had to press CTRL + ALT + DEL in the virtual machine side. After that, the system booted up to the desktop, and the sound works!

Nostalgic, isn’t it?

OS/2 Warp 4.52 on 86Box with Super Socket 7 [1998]

OS/2 was a proprietary operating system that was initially developed by IBM in partnership with Microsoft as a replacement of DOS before it became entirely developed by IBM. OS/2 Warp 4 was officially released in 1996, and development slowed down to a halt because it failed to compete Microsoft Windows. OS/2 Warp 4.52 was officially released in December 2001, and this year, it will celebrate its 25th year anniversary.

Our focus in this article is testing OS/2 Warp 4.52 on an 86Box emulated machine with a Super Socket 7 [1998] motherboard. You can download it from here.

We’ve configured the virtual machine as follows:

We’ve configured a virtual machine to run with:

• Machine type: [1998] Super Socket 7
• Machine: [SiS 5591] Gigabyte GA-5SG100
• CPU: Intel Pentium @ 166 MHz
• Memory: 128 MB
• Video: [ISA16] Cirrus Logic GD5434
• Keyboard: AT Keyboard
• Mouse: PS/2 Mouse
• Sound card: [ISA16] Sound Blaster 16 PnP
• Floppy disk controller: Internal device
• Hard disk controller 1: Internal device
• New hard disk: os2warp452.vhd
  • C/H/S: 1054/16/63
  • Size: 518 MB
  • Bus: IDE
  • Channel: 0:0
• CD-ROM drive 1: ATAPI (0:1) KENWOOD CD-ROM UCR-421 208E (72x)

Once everything is configured as above, we can now start the virtual machine. Insert the boot disc called mcp2-refresh-boot-en.iso to the CD-ROM reader, then configure BIOS as necessary.

To be more specific, we need to go to the BIOS setup using DEL and change the boot order so that CD-ROM goes first with PGUP/PGDN.

After that, we save the changes and restart the virtual machine.

The installer starts by telling you to insert the installation CD-ROM to the drive.

In this case, right-click on the CD-ROM icon, select “Insert…”, select mcp2-refresh-install-en.iso, and double-click it. Then, press ENTER.

After that, you should be able to see this welcome screen:

Press ENTER, and you’ll be taken to another screen that welcomes you to the operating system installer.

Press ENTER. At this point, since it’s a fresh installation, and the hard drive is already empty, you’ll get the “Volumes Too Small” message. This means that you’ll need to create a single partition that will be used to install OS/2 Warp 4.52 to.

Press ENTER, and you’ll get a warning message telling you that all data on modified volumes will be deleted, and that backups should be made. Since there is no data on the hard drive, you can safely ignore this warning. Just press ENTER.

After that, you’ll be taken to the partitioning screen where you’ll be presented with the logical volume manager, with the logical view being the default. Press F5, and you’ll be taken to a screen where you can see your hard disk, such as the below screenshot:

Here, you can create a physical partition. Press TAB, then ENTER, and you’ll be presented with those options.

Press ENTER to create a new partition. You’ll be asked whether this partition is going to be logical or primary. Select “Primary partition”.

After you select it, you’ll be presented with various dialog boxes telling you to specify the size and the name of the partition, as well as the position of the partition. Select “Create at the start of the free space”, then enter the partition name, then the size.

After that, this partition should be created.

We are not done yet when it comes to partitioning, so we need to go back to the logical view. Press ENTER, then press ENTER on “Create a new volume”. Then, select “Create a volume that can be made bootable”, then C:.

You’ll be brought back to the physical view that will tell you to choose a physical disk. Below the physical disk, the logical partition should be shown at the bottom of the screen. Press ENTER when this dialog box appears.

Press ENTER again, then select “Use existing partition”.

Now, a new logical volume will appear with the partition name that you’ve chosen. However, it’s still not ready yet for installation, since there are extra steps that are needed. We need to make it installable.

Press ENTER, and you should see the menu box below:

Select “Set the volume installable”. The status of your logical volume should change from “Startable” to “Installable”. Afterwards, press F3, and press ENTER when “Save the changes and exit” is highlighted.

Afterwards, you should be able to see the below dialog box telling you to insert the boot CD-ROM to the drive and restart the virtual machine using CTRL + ALT + DEL.

At this point, we need to change the BIOS boot order to avoid the black screen issue. Press DEL, go to BIOS Features Setup, and change the boot order so that CD-ROM goes first.

Then, exit the BIOS setup while saving changes, and follow the instructions all the way until the following screen shows up:

Verify that “Volume C” shows up. If not, you’ll have to configure the partitions again until the volume shows up in this screen. Since we’ve already configured everything, and that Volume C corresponds to our hard disk, press ENTER when “Accept the volume” is highlighted.

Then, the installer asked us whether we’d like to format it slowly or quickly. This is a clean installation, so we’ve chosen a quick format. Then, the installer asked us whether we’d like to use FAT or HPFS. We’ve chosen the HPFS file system.

After that, the installation of the base system begins.

After that, the virtual machine will automatically restart. Go back to the BIOS setup and make sure that the C drive comes first before the CD-ROM.

After that, OS/2 Warp should boot up to the GUI portion of the installer. The first thing you’ll be presented with is the configuration of the system, including the country, the graphics adapter, and the sound adapter.

First of all, we went to “Multimedia Device Support”, and added the SoundBlaster 16 PnP device to the list of installed devices.

Afterwards, we’re presented with another set of configuration, once we’ve selected “Next”. SInce there’s no need to configure anything on that screen, we’ve just clicked Next. Then, it presented us with options to choose the country/region, with the default selected country being “United States.”

Then, the printer configuraion window has shown up. SInce there’s no printer installed, we’ll leave it as it is.

We’re then presented with the graphics adapter configuration. It automatically selected the Cirrus Logic graphics adapter as we’ve chosen earlier for the virtual machine configuration.

Once we’ve selected OK, we’re then presented with a set of packages to install.

As soon as we clicked “Next”, we’re presented with another wizard that lets us configure some more services.

Once we clicked Next, we’re presented with a prompt to identify ourselves.

After that, we’re given another set of software packages to install. They represent the client services for OS/2.

Once we clicked Next, we’re presented with another configuration screen where we needed to configure the user ID and password for the file and print sharing services, and the network adapter and protocol services.

We went to create a new ID and a password for the sharing service

Then, we went to “Network Adapters and Protocol Services”, and a dialog box that told us to add a network adapter appeared. Since we don’t intend to have internet connectivity in this installation of OS/2 Warp 4.52, we’ve selected “No network adapter.”

Once we pressed OK, we’ve seen this result:

Now, we’ve pressed Install, and a confirmation dialog box appeared.

Now, the installation of the remaining system files started here.

Once it was done copying files, we’re asked whether to use the defaults for the monitor type or to use the display adapter utility program.

We’ve chosen the defaults, and an informational box appeared stating that the screen might flicker while the testing was underway.

After that, the remaining portions of the installation started. This is part one of the long waiting journey!

After the restart, depending on the region selected, OS/2 Warp 4.52 might tell you that there’s something wrong in the CONFIG.SYS file related to the codepage, just like below.

After that, the long waiting journey continues…

The system then restarted, and the desktop finally appeared, but with another dialog box asking us whether we needed to install sets of extra tools or not.

We’ve chosen the biggest option, which was “OS/2 Toolkit (English only)”. Then, we’ve clicked on Install once we’ve inserted the boot disk back to the CD-ROM drive.

Then, a configuration window where it tells us to configure the installation of the OS/2 Toolkit, just like below.

We’ve chosen to install everything, so we just chose Install. Yet another long wait journey starts…

After the installation of the toolkit reached 100%, a dialog box that told us that the installation was successful showed up. Once done, we’ve clicked on Quit in the toolkit installer.

Since the dialog box told us that the CONFIG.SYS file was modified and that we needed to restart the virtual machine. Therefore, we’ve clicked on Exit, then right-clicked on an empty area around the desktop and chose “Shut down”.

Once the shut down was done, we had to press CTRL + ALT + DEL in the virtual machine side. After that, the system booted up to the desktop, and the sound works!

Nostalgic, isn’t it?

OS/2 Warp 4.52 on 86Box with Super Socket 7 [1998]

OS/2 was a proprietary operating system that was initially developed by IBM in partnership with Microsoft as a replacement of DOS before it became entirely developed by IBM. OS/2 Warp 4 was officially released in 1996, and development slowed down to a halt because it failed to compete Microsoft Windows. OS/2 Warp 4.52 was officially released in December 2001, and this year, it will celebrate its 25th year anniversary.

Our focus in this article is testing OS/2 Warp 4.52 on an 86Box emulated machine with a Super Socket 7 [1998] motherboard. You can download it from here.

We’ve configured the virtual machine as follows:

We’ve configured a virtual machine to run with:

• Machine type: [1998] Super Socket 7
• Machine: [SiS 5591] Gigabyte GA-5SG100
• CPU: Intel Pentium @ 166 MHz
• Memory: 128 MB
• Video: [ISA16] Cirrus Logic GD5434
• Keyboard: AT Keyboard
• Mouse: PS/2 Mouse
• Sound card: [ISA16] Sound Blaster 16 PnP
• Floppy disk controller: Internal device
• Hard disk controller 1: Internal device
• New hard disk: os2warp452.vhd
  • C/H/S: 1054/16/63
  • Size: 518 MB
  • Bus: IDE
  • Channel: 0:0
• CD-ROM drive 1: ATAPI (0:1) KENWOOD CD-ROM UCR-421 208E (72x)

Once everything is configured as above, we can now start the virtual machine. Insert the boot disc called mcp2-refresh-boot-en.iso to the CD-ROM reader, then configure BIOS as necessary.

To be more specific, we need to go to the BIOS setup using DEL and change the boot order so that CD-ROM goes first with PGUP/PGDN.

After that, we save the changes and restart the virtual machine.

The installer starts by telling you to insert the installation CD-ROM to the drive.

In this case, right-click on the CD-ROM icon, select “Insert…”, select mcp2-refresh-install-en.iso, and double-click it. Then, press ENTER.

After that, you should be able to see this welcome screen:

Press ENTER, and you’ll be taken to another screen that welcomes you to the operating system installer.

Press ENTER. At this point, since it’s a fresh installation, and the hard drive is already empty, you’ll get the “Volumes Too Small” message. This means that you’ll need to create a single partition that will be used to install OS/2 Warp 4.52 to.

Press ENTER, and you’ll get a warning message telling you that all data on modified volumes will be deleted, and that backups should be made. Since there is no data on the hard drive, you can safely ignore this warning. Just press ENTER.

After that, you’ll be taken to the partitioning screen where you’ll be presented with the logical volume manager, with the logical view being the default. Press F5, and you’ll be taken to a screen where you can see your hard disk, such as the below screenshot:

Here, you can create a physical partition. Press TAB, then ENTER, and you’ll be presented with those options.

Press ENTER to create a new partition. You’ll be asked whether this partition is going to be logical or primary. Select “Primary partition”.

After you select it, you’ll be presented with various dialog boxes telling you to specify the size and the name of the partition, as well as the position of the partition. Select “Create at the start of the free space”, then enter the partition name, then the size.

After that, this partition should be created.

We are not done yet when it comes to partitioning, so we need to go back to the logical view. Press ENTER, then press ENTER on “Create a new volume”. Then, select “Create a volume that can be made bootable”, then C:.

You’ll be brought back to the physical view that will tell you to choose a physical disk. Below the physical disk, the logical partition should be shown at the bottom of the screen. Press ENTER when this dialog box appears.

Press ENTER again, then select “Use existing partition”.

Now, a new logical volume will appear with the partition name that you’ve chosen. However, it’s still not ready yet for installation, since there are extra steps that are needed. We need to make it installable.

Press ENTER, and you should see the menu box below:

Select “Set the volume installable”. The status of your logical volume should change from “Startable” to “Installable”. Afterwards, press F3, and press ENTER when “Save the changes and exit” is highlighted.

Afterwards, you should be able to see the below dialog box telling you to insert the boot CD-ROM to the drive and restart the virtual machine using CTRL + ALT + DEL.

At this point, we need to change the BIOS boot order to avoid the black screen issue. Press DEL, go to BIOS Features Setup, and change the boot order so that CD-ROM goes first.

Then, exit the BIOS setup while saving changes, and follow the instructions all the way until the following screen shows up:

Verify that “Volume C” shows up. If not, you’ll have to configure the partitions again until the volume shows up in this screen. Since we’ve already configured everything, and that Volume C corresponds to our hard disk, press ENTER when “Accept the volume” is highlighted.

Then, the installer asked us whether we’d like to format it slowly or quickly. This is a clean installation, so we’ve chosen a quick format. Then, the installer asked us whether we’d like to use FAT or HPFS. We’ve chosen the HPFS file system.

After that, the installation of the base system begins.

After that, the virtual machine will automatically restart. Go back to the BIOS setup and make sure that the C drive comes first before the CD-ROM.

After that, OS/2 Warp should boot up to the GUI portion of the installer. The first thing you’ll be presented with is the configuration of the system, including the country, the graphics adapter, and the sound adapter.

First of all, we went to “Multimedia Device Support”, and added the SoundBlaster 16 PnP device to the list of installed devices.

Afterwards, we’re presented with another set of configuration, once we’ve selected “Next”. SInce there’s no need to configure anything on that screen, we’ve just clicked Next. Then, it presented us with options to choose the country/region, with the default selected country being “United States.”

Then, the printer configuraion window has shown up. SInce there’s no printer installed, we’ll leave it as it is.

We’re then presented with the graphics adapter configuration. It automatically selected the Cirrus Logic graphics adapter as we’ve chosen earlier for the virtual machine configuration.

Once we’ve selected OK, we’re then presented with a set of packages to install.

As soon as we clicked “Next”, we’re presented with another wizard that lets us configure some more services.

Once we clicked Next, we’re presented with a prompt to identify ourselves.

After that, we’re given another set of software packages to install. They represent the client services for OS/2.

Once we clicked Next, we’re presented with another configuration screen where we needed to configure the user ID and password for the file and print sharing services, and the network adapter and protocol services.

We went to create a new ID and a password for the sharing service

Then, we went to “Network Adapters and Protocol Services”, and a dialog box that told us to add a network adapter appeared. Since we don’t intend to have internet connectivity in this installation of OS/2 Warp 4.52, we’ve selected “No network adapter.”

Once we pressed OK, we’ve seen this result:

Now, we’ve pressed Install, and a confirmation dialog box appeared.

Now, the installation of the remaining system files started here.

Once it was done copying files, we’re asked whether to use the defaults for the monitor type or to use the display adapter utility program.

We’ve chosen the defaults, and an informational box appeared stating that the screen might flicker while the testing was underway.

After that, the remaining portions of the installation started. This is part one of the long waiting journey!

After the restart, depending on the region selected, OS/2 Warp 4.52 might tell you that there’s something wrong in the CONFIG.SYS file related to the codepage, just like below.

After that, the long waiting journey continues…

The system then restarted, and the desktop finally appeared, but with another dialog box asking us whether we needed to install sets of extra tools or not.

We’ve chosen the biggest option, which was “OS/2 Toolkit (English only)”. Then, we’ve clicked on Install once we’ve inserted the boot disk back to the CD-ROM drive.

Then, a configuration window where it tells us to configure the installation of the OS/2 Toolkit, just like below.

We’ve chosen to install everything, so we just chose Install. Yet another long wait journey starts…

After the installation of the toolkit reached 100%, a dialog box that told us that the installation was successful showed up. Once done, we’ve clicked on Quit in the toolkit installer.

Since the dialog box told us that the CONFIG.SYS file was modified and that we needed to restart the virtual machine. Therefore, we’ve clicked on Exit, then right-clicked on an empty area around the desktop and chose “Shut down”.

Once the shut down was done, we had to press CTRL + ALT + DEL in the virtual machine side. After that, the system booted up to the desktop, and the sound works!

Nostalgic, isn’t it?

OS/2 Warp 4.52 on 86Box with Super Socket 7 [1998]

OS/2 was a proprietary operating system that was initially developed by IBM in partnership with Microsoft as a replacement of DOS before it became entirely developed by IBM. OS/2 Warp 4 was officially released in 1996, and development slowed down to a halt because it failed to compete Microsoft Windows. OS/2 Warp 4.52 was officially released in December 2001, and this year, it will celebrate its 25th year anniversary.

Our focus in this article is testing OS/2 Warp 4.52 on an 86Box emulated machine with a Super Socket 7 [1998] motherboard. You can download it from here.

We’ve configured the virtual machine as follows:

We’ve configured a virtual machine to run with:

• Machine type: [1998] Super Socket 7
• Machine: [SiS 5591] Gigabyte GA-5SG100
• CPU: Intel Pentium @ 166 MHz
• Memory: 128 MB
• Video: [ISA16] Cirrus Logic GD5434
• Keyboard: AT Keyboard
• Mouse: PS/2 Mouse
• Sound card: [ISA16] Sound Blaster 16 PnP
• Floppy disk controller: Internal device
• Hard disk controller 1: Internal device
• New hard disk: os2warp452.vhd
  • C/H/S: 1054/16/63
  • Size: 518 MB
  • Bus: IDE
  • Channel: 0:0
• CD-ROM drive 1: ATAPI (0:1) KENWOOD CD-ROM UCR-421 208E (72x)

Once everything is configured as above, we can now start the virtual machine. Insert the boot disc called mcp2-refresh-boot-en.iso to the CD-ROM reader, then configure BIOS as necessary.

To be more specific, we need to go to the BIOS setup using DEL and change the boot order so that CD-ROM goes first with PGUP/PGDN.

After that, we save the changes and restart the virtual machine.

The installer starts by telling you to insert the installation CD-ROM to the drive.

In this case, right-click on the CD-ROM icon, select “Insert…”, select mcp2-refresh-install-en.iso, and double-click it. Then, press ENTER.

After that, you should be able to see this welcome screen:

Press ENTER, and you’ll be taken to another screen that welcomes you to the operating system installer.

Press ENTER. At this point, since it’s a fresh installation, and the hard drive is already empty, you’ll get the “Volumes Too Small” message. This means that you’ll need to create a single partition that will be used to install OS/2 Warp 4.52 to.

Press ENTER, and you’ll get a warning message telling you that all data on modified volumes will be deleted, and that backups should be made. Since there is no data on the hard drive, you can safely ignore this warning. Just press ENTER.

After that, you’ll be taken to the partitioning screen where you’ll be presented with the logical volume manager, with the logical view being the default. Press F5, and you’ll be taken to a screen where you can see your hard disk, such as the below screenshot:

Here, you can create a physical partition. Press TAB, then ENTER, and you’ll be presented with those options.

Press ENTER to create a new partition. You’ll be asked whether this partition is going to be logical or primary. Select “Primary partition”.

After you select it, you’ll be presented with various dialog boxes telling you to specify the size and the name of the partition, as well as the position of the partition. Select “Create at the start of the free space”, then enter the partition name, then the size.

After that, this partition should be created.

We are not done yet when it comes to partitioning, so we need to go back to the logical view. Press ENTER, then press ENTER on “Create a new volume”. Then, select “Create a volume that can be made bootable”, then C:.

You’ll be brought back to the physical view that will tell you to choose a physical disk. Below the physical disk, the logical partition should be shown at the bottom of the screen. Press ENTER when this dialog box appears.

Press ENTER again, then select “Use existing partition”.

Now, a new logical volume will appear with the partition name that you’ve chosen. However, it’s still not ready yet for installation, since there are extra steps that are needed. We need to make it installable.

Press ENTER, and you should see the menu box below:

Select “Set the volume installable”. The status of your logical volume should change from “Startable” to “Installable”. Afterwards, press F3, and press ENTER when “Save the changes and exit” is highlighted.

Afterwards, you should be able to see the below dialog box telling you to insert the boot CD-ROM to the drive and restart the virtual machine using CTRL + ALT + DEL.

At this point, we need to change the BIOS boot order to avoid the black screen issue. Press DEL, go to BIOS Features Setup, and change the boot order so that CD-ROM goes first.

Then, exit the BIOS setup while saving changes, and follow the instructions all the way until the following screen shows up:

Verify that “Volume C” shows up. If not, you’ll have to configure the partitions again until the volume shows up in this screen. Since we’ve already configured everything, and that Volume C corresponds to our hard disk, press ENTER when “Accept the volume” is highlighted.

Then, the installer asked us whether we’d like to format it slowly or quickly. This is a clean installation, so we’ve chosen a quick format. Then, the installer asked us whether we’d like to use FAT or HPFS. We’ve chosen the HPFS file system.

After that, the installation of the base system begins.

After that, the virtual machine will automatically restart. Go back to the BIOS setup and make sure that the C drive comes first before the CD-ROM.

After that, OS/2 Warp should boot up to the GUI portion of the installer. The first thing you’ll be presented with is the configuration of the system, including the country, the graphics adapter, and the sound adapter.

First of all, we went to “Multimedia Device Support”, and added the SoundBlaster 16 PnP device to the list of installed devices.

Afterwards, we’re presented with another set of configuration, once we’ve selected “Next”. SInce there’s no need to configure anything on that screen, we’ve just clicked Next. Then, it presented us with options to choose the country/region, with the default selected country being “United States.”

Then, the printer configuraion window has shown up. SInce there’s no printer installed, we’ll leave it as it is.

We’re then presented with the graphics adapter configuration. It automatically selected the Cirrus Logic graphics adapter as we’ve chosen earlier for the virtual machine configuration.

Once we’ve selected OK, we’re then presented with a set of packages to install.

As soon as we clicked “Next”, we’re presented with another wizard that lets us configure some more services.

Once we clicked Next, we’re presented with a prompt to identify ourselves.

After that, we’re given another set of software packages to install. They represent the client services for OS/2.

Once we clicked Next, we’re presented with another configuration screen where we needed to configure the user ID and password for the file and print sharing services, and the network adapter and protocol services.

We went to create a new ID and a password for the sharing service

Then, we went to “Network Adapters and Protocol Services”, and a dialog box that told us to add a network adapter appeared. Since we don’t intend to have internet connectivity in this installation of OS/2 Warp 4.52, we’ve selected “No network adapter.”

Once we pressed OK, we’ve seen this result:

Now, we’ve pressed Install, and a confirmation dialog box appeared.

Now, the installation of the remaining system files started here.

Once it was done copying files, we’re asked whether to use the defaults for the monitor type or to use the display adapter utility program.

We’ve chosen the defaults, and an informational box appeared stating that the screen might flicker while the testing was underway.

After that, the remaining portions of the installation started. This is part one of the long waiting journey!

After the restart, depending on the region selected, OS/2 Warp 4.52 might tell you that there’s something wrong in the CONFIG.SYS file related to the codepage, just like below.

After that, the long waiting journey continues…

The system then restarted, and the desktop finally appeared, but with another dialog box asking us whether we needed to install sets of extra tools or not.

We’ve chosen the biggest option, which was “OS/2 Toolkit (English only)”. Then, we’ve clicked on Install once we’ve inserted the boot disk back to the CD-ROM drive.

Then, a configuration window where it tells us to configure the installation of the OS/2 Toolkit, just like below.

We’ve chosen to install everything, so we just chose Install. Yet another long wait journey starts…

After the installation of the toolkit reached 100%, a dialog box that told us that the installation was successful showed up. Once done, we’ve clicked on Quit in the toolkit installer.

Since the dialog box told us that the CONFIG.SYS file was modified and that we needed to restart the virtual machine. Therefore, we’ve clicked on Exit, then right-clicked on an empty area around the desktop and chose “Shut down”.

Once the shut down was done, we had to press CTRL + ALT + DEL in the virtual machine side. After that, the system booted up to the desktop, and the sound works!

Nostalgic, isn’t it?