FS> With Boot manager you cannot see or use the OS/2 partition 
 FS> while in DOS and/or the DOS partition while in OS/2.  
Only if you made the mistake of installing OS/2 in a primary partition.  As 
you know, OS/2 can live perfectly happily in a logical drive in an extended 
partition.  OS/2, when installed that way, can use and see the primary 
partition containing DOS.  And, of course, one uses Boot Manager to select 
between them.
 FS> I wish there weren't so many messages blindly advising newbies
 FS> to use Boot manager without even attempting to properly evaluate
 FS> the newcomers needs first.
The reason that many people recommend Boot Manager over Dual Boot is that 
this argument was hashed out long ago in the public networks.  The 
conclusions were that there are vanishingly few situations where Dual Boot is 
preferable to Boot Manager and that use of Dual Boot introduces many pitfalls 
for the unwary newbie that Boot Manager does not.
Interestingly, in the Troubleshooting guide in OS/2 Warp 4, some of these 
same conclusions are now listed by IBM.
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