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Date:	Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:57:29 -0700
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Preparing new HDD for eCS -- boot manager issue

In <4722E9F6.9040208@gmail.com>, on 10/27/07
at 12:35 AM, Tom Brown said:

Hi,

>BM should go at
>the beginning or end of a drive so as not to fragment the free space
>used for the logical volume container.

It can safely go after any primary partition. This is sometimes useful
when installing a non-LBA aware version of OS/2 on a system that is
already using the first primary for some flavor of Windows.

The first primary could be moved to make space for Boot Manager, but old
versions of PM did not resize the resulting parition to account for the
fact that the 1st primary is short one sector to accomodate the MBR. This
resulted in various forms of pain.

On an LBA aware system such as MCP or eCS, the end of the drive is
probably the best place for BM.

Steven

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