This is NOT a Boot Manager issue. Win2k was preloaded on the machine. I wish to keep it, but to install Warp on it as well. I repartitioned the HD, giving Win2k 7GB as the first partition; this size allowed me to place Boot Manager ABOVE Win2k, where it would not bother the exclusivity ambitions of The Richest Man In The World. BEFORE I installed Boot Manager or anything else, I tried to install Win2k from the "recovery disk"; the installation ran to completion with no apparent problem -- until the final point at which Win2k was to boot under its own power, at which point an announcement appeared telling me that the kernel, NTOSKRNL.SYS, was missing or corrupt. In fact, it is present, and it is not corrupt, as evidenced by the fact that the system does install properly when the partition covers the entire 20GB HD. So evidently the recovery disk frustrates the installation by insisting on a LOT of HD real estate. That is my interpretation of what is happening, but I would be happy to be corrected. Is there a workaround for this problem? --

Just a point a recovery disk is not a full copy therefore the manufacturer quite often installs hidden partitions on the hard drive and obviously by repartitioning it has altered where the hidden partition is pointing to when you do a recovery. Buy a proper copy of W2K and save difficulties

If you want to install OS/2 Warp 4 (no lvm) you have to install the OS below the 8GB boundary, I also recommend using os2 fdisk for partitioning the disk, be sure that W2K has at least ServicePak #2 installed. I dont think that using the 'recovery disk' will left some space on the disk for OS/2, you have to use PartitionMagic or similar tools to free up some space...

The advice to acquire a "real" copy of Win2k is well taken. I had been avoiding it because it would leave out some of the facilities that are on the recovery disk, e.g. the Thinkpad documentation and some drivers, but I am pretty sure that the drivers can be made up from the IBM Thinkpad site, and I can probably live without the TP documentation. Thanks.

IBM is very good for ducumentation and when was donated an old PS/2 PC, yes IBM had all the info. Before selling my copy of OS/2 I had it running on a triboot system, the drive was partioned into three. OS/2 was installed first on D: drive, then PCDOS on C: and NT4 on E:. If I remember correctly NT4 ignores boot loader, but there is a facility in NT4 to re-instate. I tried installing OS/2 second and third, but installing first was easier. btw all using FAT16 format, and yes you can install W2K & XP on a 4gb maximum FAT16 partition same as NT4

Should read OS/2 Warp version 3