>>> With Boot manager you cannot see or use the OS/2 partition while in
 >>> DOS and/or the DOS partition while in OS/2.
 KS>> By Jove!  That's completely false.
 NW> No it isn't.
Since it is quite easy to construct a configuration where one has Boot 
Manager, DOS in the primary partition, and OS/2 in a logical drive in the 
extended partition, such that OS/2 _can_ "see or use the DOS partition", I 
would say that the statement is proven to be false by counterexample.  Three 
or four years ago, that was, in fact, the way that I had my machine 
configured.
If one doesn't use HPFS for the OS/2 boot partition but uses FAT (not 
something that I would recommend, mind you), the second half of the statement 
is proven false by counterexample, too, since DOS _can_ then "see or use the 
OS/2 partition".
 ¯ JdeBP ®
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