{"id":135,"date":"2004-08-18T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-install-os-2-on-an-extended-partition-or-secondary-hard-drive\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:07:31","slug":"how-to-install-os-2-on-an-extended-partition-or-secondary-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-install-os-2-on-an-extended-partition-or-secondary-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install OS\/2 On an Extended Partition or Secondary Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can install OS\/2 in a primary partition on hard drive 0 without any problem.&nbsp; If you want OS\/2 installed on to a logical volume or a secondary hard drive, then boot manager (part of OS\/2) has to be installed.<\/p>\r\n  <p>If you do not have the <strong>Limit Primaries<\/strong> option enabled in BootIt BM, then note the following: <\/p>\r\n  <ul>\r\n    <li>Because the OS\/2 FDisk wants to create a &quot;new&quot; boot manager partition and won't let you select a partition for it to be installed on, you'll need to be very careful on getting boot manager installed. If you have less than 4 partitions total, including the BootIt&nbsp;BM EMBRM partition, you can add all the partitions to the MBR and install&nbsp;boot manager as normal; otherwise, you'll need to figure out a way to get it installed (see example next).<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>One technique to get the 1-to-10-MB boot manager partition installed is to add a partition entry to the MBR that&nbsp;follows a free block.&nbsp; You can then install boot manager high in that block.&nbsp; Be sure that you double check your logic.&nbsp;&nbsp; For example, the BootIt&nbsp;BM EMBRM partition may be at the end of the disk, if you didn't look because you thought that the end of your drive didn't have any partitions, you'd be wrong!<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Another technique for getting the boot manager partition installed is to add a partition entry to the MBR that has free space after it.&nbsp; You can then install boot manager low in the free block after the partition which has known free space after it. <\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can install OS\/2 in a primary partition on hard drive 0 without any problem.&nbsp; If you want OS\/2 installed on to a logical volume or a secondary hard drive, then boot manager (part of OS\/2) has to be installed. If you do not have the Limit Primaries option enabled in BootIt BM, then note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1784],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2132],"class_list":["post-135","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-os-2","lsvr_kba_tag-os-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/135\/revisions\/6425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}