Kenneth Abrams wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 KA> Hello Roy!
 KA> 28 Apr 98 10:16, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Kenneth Abrams:
 RT> Which I guess means that when I get around to sticking that new 6.4G
 RT> drive in this box I need to make both my normal boot partition _and_
 RT> any maintenance partition nearer the beginning of the drive...
 KA> Wherever your bios can see without drivers. 
Hmm.  The bios in this machine *does* support LBA mode,  as well as a couple 
of others.  That's what's in there now,  AAMOF,  and the drive it's 
supporting is this 1.2G that's 2000-some-odd cylinders,  and there are no 
special drivers or anything loaded.
Likewise I didn't have any problems with the 2+G SCSI drive that's in here, 
once I told the Adaptec controller to do the translation,  rather than 
letting it operate raw.  I suspect that I might have to re-do this,  but if 
necessary once I install the new drive I'll copy stuff off that one and re-do 
it.
 KA> All Boot Manager really does is redirect the boot process to a 
 KA> user-selected partition, it's still up to the bios to find that 
 KA> partition and the os to actually boot from it.
It's going to be an interesting experiment when I finally get around to it.  
I forget how many cylinders this drive is spec'd as having,  but the number 
is *way* up there,  way bigger than what I'm used to thinking of drive 
numbers resembling.  
 RT> Speaking of "other than the first physical drive",  if I go 
 RT> ahead and do that install and stick BM on there first thing,  
 RT> am I going to be able to use my _current_ boot partition (on 
 RT> what's then going to be the second physical drive) to continue 
 RT> to boot my current setup?  If
 KA> If you're referring to an existing OS/2 installation, the 
 KA> problem you'll have is drive letters. You should probably be 
 KA> able to reinstall (perhaps on top and keep current setup) and 
 KA> correct that, however. If you're referring to your DOS/DV 
 KA> setup, no, DOS is pretty insistent about booting from that 
 KA> first disk and first primary partition (often referred to as 
 KA> C:).
I am referring to the dos/dv setup.  The thing is,  if I only have HPFS 
partitions (to start with) and BM on the new drive,  then the existing C: 
_is_ going to be the first one that dos sees,  isn't it?
 KA> My maintenance partition currently resides on a primary 
 KA> partition at the beginning of an 850M WD drive installed as a 
 KA> slave on my primary IDE channel (drive d:, normally). However, 
 KA> I've never actually installed OS/2 on the second drive, the 
 KA> maint. partition was created by BOOTOS2.
Is there any advantage to doing so with BOOTOS2?  Or is it just as easy to do 
an install from scratch,  once I get things partitioned?
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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