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Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:19:58 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Boot Restrictions

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In <3F8D8F01.F6900E81@pacbell.net>, on 10/15/03
at 10:14 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>partition fell slightly past the 10G. mark on an 18G. boot
>drive. Maybe it was a SCSI thing, or a BIOS issue, and would not come
>into play on more contemporary hardware ?

It's not a SCSI thing. To be able to boot from anywhere on the drive, the
BIOS, the Boot Manager and OS2BOOT must all cooperate. If you are using
the eCS 1.0 version of BM and OS2BOOT, then that says your BIOS is too
old.

>[According to FDISK:]

>[According to LVM:]

The results are consistent.

>{I don't know where LVM comes into this, but it sort of
>looks to me like an indication from FDISK that 8G. is *the*
>limit for OS/2 bootability on this particular system.}

It's a matter of trust. FDISK might give the right answers for an LVM'ed
system and then it might not.

Regards,

Steven

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