Felipe Almeida wrote:
> I'm planing to install OS/2 in a computer with Linux and Windows.
> What is the best boot manager to use? ...
IMO OS/2's Boot Manager is still the best, even though it costs you a
primary partition.
> It's more reasonable to install the systems in these orders: OS/2,
> Windows & Linux or it doesn't matter?
The order does not matter, except that you won't get a Boot Manager
until you have a running OS/2.
What does critically matter is your hard disk partitioning scheme,
which must accommodate the different partition naming and lettering
idiosyncrasies of all the OS's involved and requires very careful
planning. You will find a multiple OS installation impracticable
unless you have Power Quest's Partition Magic (PM) - create the rescue
floppies and use them exclusively for what follows.
Make sure your CMOS BIOS is set to boot first from floppy and that your
disks are set in the BIOS to LBA (if this needs changing any data on
the drives will be lost), then install OS/2 on an HPFS logical
partition (300Mb) and set up Boot Manager with just one menu item and
create the 4 floppy OS/2 utility booting set, then install Windows to
the second primary partition, then use Windows FDISK in an MSDOS prompt
window to set the Boot Manager again as the active partition, then use
PM to create the other HPFS OS/2 and FAT32 Windows partitions and then
move all the logical partitions (but not the extended partition) up to
make room for Linux (1 or 2 Gb) and its swap (100Mb) partition as the
new first logical partitions.
Now install Linux, in the process making NO changes to the
partitioning. Now run OS/2's FDISK (because you have moved the
partition, Boot Manager may no longer work and you may have to boot
from the floppy utility set you just made) to set up the final Boot
Manager menu and you are done.
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Ron Stodden
