Since using OS/2 for six years, I never realized that the "Boot DOS on Drive A:" would boot other operating systems such as linux.

How can I re-configure the operations of that object to boot a partition or drive letter other than the floppy A:?

interesting idea, can you place parameters in
object settings? If not use [] in parameters. This will popup a window asking for input before starting. You may have to know which file starts the boot disk though.

Simple.

Go into the system BIOS.
Look through to find the "Boot Sequence".
If the first letter in the sequence is A, then switch that with your OS/2 partittion.
Whatever drive letter it maybe, and vice versa.

To avoid any confusion, my question is regarding the loading of an operating system within OS/2 (Without having to shutdown, etc)

It would be nice to run Windows 3.x, OS/2, DOS, and Linux programs on one platform without having to restart anything. And that is infact what I'm doing right now.

I load Slackware Linux off a boot disk inside a tiny window in OS/2. OS/2 does not seem to care what operating system you are loading into it. It just does it. Amazing, isn't it?

I'm just amazed all this could be done on a 25mhz, 8meg, 200meg hd, laptop.

I'm even using the Flash Path with my 64meg Sandisk Media with this old laptop to transfer images from my camera.

On the otherhand,

I'm also amazed that the people bought into Microsoft. How many years and less lines of code are they behind from OS/2?

I've never had an OS/2 system crash on me.
I crash an NT system at least twice a day on a machine with 25 times the memory, 20 times the hard drive space, 10 times the processing power.

OS/2 still loads faster on my old laptop than NT on the new machine.

I don't know what to say to all that.
Am I missing something?

Here is an actual quote from Bill Gates:

"We believe that OS/2 is the platform for the 90s".

For once, I have to agree with that. Online merchants today uses IBM's services for e-business.

I brought this book at the public libary called "Inside OS/2" by the Microsoft Press, 1988. In the Forward Section, Bill Gates mentions that OS/2 is the Operating System for the next decade, or the 90's. This message is constantly repeated. Also, the book mentions that the next thousand great applications will use OS/2. This book was written when OS/2 v1.3 went on the market, even before the presentation manager was released, and about 1 1/2 years before Windows 3.0 was released.