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DougB
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« Reply #1 on: 2010.03.01, 23:37:29 » |
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I think you have some misconception about where the OS/2 Boot Manager used to be allowed. Partitions have nothing to do with it. Boot Manager itself is a partition.
In the old days, Boot Manager needed to be completely within the first 1024 logical cylinders (the same rule applied to every bootable partition). With new hardware (with the I13 extensions), you no longer have that restriction. Boot Manager can be anywhere on the disk, as long as the I13 extensions will support it (any system that is less than 10 years old should have no trouble, anywhere on the disk). After experimenting for a while, I have decided that the best place for Boot Manager is right at the very end of the disk. If it is there, it will not interfere with rearranging other partitions, should you wish to do so, and it doesn't interfere with certain things that demand that the very first partition needs to be a primary partition, formatted as FAT, FAT32, or NTFS.. There is also a pretty good chance, that there will already be a small, empty, space at the end, simply because it is less than a full cylinder. Almost always, Boot Manger will slip into that otherwise wasted space. To get it there, Uninstall Boot Manager (use LVM, or MinILVM), then fill up all but that small, empty, space at the end of the disk, with other partitions. Then install Boot Manager. If it refuses to install, you will need to expand that last partition, somehow (try DFSEE to shrink the previous partition by one cylinder, which should add on cylinder to the empty space), then install Boot Manager. Then, add the partitions that you wish to be managed by Boot Manager to the Boot Manager menu. After that, you can do what you want with the other partitions, being aware, that fooling around with partitions can result in permanent data loss.
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