Linda Proulx wrote in a message to Peter Knapper:

 GW> ???? What do you mean "The BIOS is too old"? When is it dated?

 LP> It's an AMI 386 dated 04/30/89.

 LP> When OS/2 came out it gave the minimum bios date & mine was 6 months too
 LP> old.  And I don't think Warp would change that.

 LP> The AMI bios had to be after a certain date & this bios date
 LP> was not. At least that was the info given to the User Group.

The only problem you're likely to run into with this is that it won't have
direct support built into the BIOS for newer,  larger drives.  That usually
takes the form of more choices in drive mappings,  particularly LBA.  As long
as you can set up a smallish partition to _boot_ from,  then once OS/2 boots
it takes control of things and the BIOS is out of the picture.

The only constraint is that the boot partition needs to be within the first
1023 cylinders on the disk.

This also bears on what I see being addressed in the next message from you (as 
they're showing up here).  Boot partitions oughta be just big enough to hold
the operating system,  and that's it.  Anything beyond the OS can be put
elsewhere.  You don't see the bias towards sticking everything on C: in OS/2
that tends to show up with other products...

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