Kenneth Abrams wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 KA> Hello Roy!
 KA> 23 Apr 98 10:12, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Don Woodall:
 RT> I thought that when you had boot manager take control,  that limit
 RT> went away and it didn't matter where the bootable partition was...
 KA> Boot Manager provides more flexibility in the placement of your 
 KA> OS/2 boot partition, but it doesn't mean it can go just 
 KA> anywhere. It does mean that you can boot OS/2 from something 
 KA> other than C:, even from somewhere other than the first 
 KA> physical drive. However, you *still* won't have OS/2's disk
 KA> drivers loaded until OS/2 begins booting, which means you are 
 KA> still reliant on the bios to find the partition that Boot 
 KA> Manager is directing the system to boot from. 
Which I guess means that when I get around to sticking that new 6.4G drive in 
this box I need to make both my normal boot partition _and_ any maintenance 
partition nearer the beginning of the drive...
Speaking of "other than the first physical drive",  if I go ahead and do that 
install and stick BM on there first thing,  am I going to be able to use my 
_current_ boot partition (on what's then going to be the second physical 
drive) to continue to boot my current setup?  If that partition (the current 
drive c:) remains visible,  is it going to screw up my drive letters on the 
new one?  Or is the fact that it's a primary partition going to make it 
inaccessible to the OS/2 boot?
I know that it wouldn't be visible to an OS/2 boot if we were talking about 
an additional primary partition on the same drive,  but it being on a 
separate physical drive has me unsure about this.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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