Ok, well my theory that disabling LBA on the drive would allow me to
install OS/2 was false.  It DID make the partition actually get added to
boot-manager, but that's all.  I still get the "Operating system
missing, system halted" message.  I also tried installing OS/2 2.1,
and that also failed, although it didn't corrupt my HD on the way (from
memory).

I guess I'm after a definitive test here, because I've been trying lots of
combinations and getting nowhere very quickly!

BTW, in my BIOS I don't actually get a choice of choosing LBA vs LARGE vs
something-else, I just get an option for each drive as to whether I have
LBA enabled or not.  In fact, I can't even set the parameters for my last 2
disk drives, only the first 2.  Strange.  Anyway, I got two versions of
OS/2, and a completely trashable 2.5 gig drive.  What's the way forward?
Being able to boot from partitions not completely contained in the first
504 meg partition would be nice too!!!  BFN.  Paul. 
@EOT:

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