PM>> couple of months ago. Unfortunately, whenever I booted it, it wiped

 PM>> out the setting on my SCSI controller which meant that one of my hard



 RY> I've never seen anything changing the settings on my hardware, unless I

 RY> tell it to ... Weird.



Yeah, and a real nuisance too. The anoying thing was that Linux was
supposed to be able to talk to that controller card :-(



 PM>> You'll have to create a separate partition for Linux. Since it uses

 PM>> its own filing system, neither MS-DOS nor OS/2 can recognise the

 PM>> partition.



 RY> The problem is, how should I do that without losing the drive mapping

 RY> when booting into the different environments ?



MS-DOS and OS/2 will only assign the partition a drive letter if they can
recognise the file format. Since neither of them can, the Linux partition
won't be assigned one and it won't affect your drive mappings.



 PM>> As I said, if you go to make the partition bootable, Linux will change

 PM>> the master boot record and Boot Manager won't get control. I don't



 RY> Have you tried using Linux's own 'Boot Manager' ?



The only one I know of that I know of is the one that sits in the MBR.
While this does allow you to boot different partitions, I didn't try doing
that.



From memory it assumed that you always wanted to boot a specific partition
unless you held down a certain key (shift or control or something) while
booting. It then gave you a choice of which partition to boot.





Paul



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