-> JK> The PCboard nodes connect ... blah blah blah   
      
   -> that's pretty deep...   
      
   Nah, not so much.  But something to be geeky proud of is my test box   
   partition setup:   
      
   Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes   
   255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders   
   Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes   
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes   
   I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes   
   Disk identifier: 0x1e861e85   
      
      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System   
   /dev/sda1   *           1           1        8001    a  OS/2 Boot   
   /dev/sda2               2         255     2040255    6  FAT16   
   /dev/sda3             256         509     2040255   16  Hidden FAT16   
   /dev/sda4             510        9729    74059650    5  Extended   
   /dev/sda5   *         510         511       16033+  83  Linux   
   /dev/sda6             512        1018     4072446   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS   
   /dev/sda7            1019        2017     8024436   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS   
   /dev/sda8            2018        2524     4072446   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS   
   /dev/sda9            2525        6259    30001356    b  W95 FAT32   
   /dev/sda10           6260        7200     7558551    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT   
   /dev/sda11           7201        8141     7558551    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT   
   /dev/sda12           8142        9082     7558551   a9  NetBSD   
   /dev/sda13           9083        9101      152586   83  Linux   
   /dev/sda14           9102        9602     4024251   83  Linux   
   /dev/sda15           9603        9729     1020096   82  Linux swap   
      
      
   Getting OS/2, grub, and two DOS boot partitions to coexist on the same   
   disk is difficult, but not impossbile.  The trick was putting grub in a   
   small logical patition (sda5). That actually works. Whoa!   
      
   Partitions 6 and 8 boot different versions of OS/2, partition 7 is an   
   HPFS data partition they share.   
      
   Partition 2 boots DOS 6.22, or Windows 2000 in partition 10.   
      
   Partition 3 boots DOS 7 / Windows 98.   
      
   And of course there is NetBSD and linux.   
      
   OS/2 boot manager is the primary boot; from there you can boot either   
   version of OS/2, or boot into grub in partition 5. From the grub boot   
   manager, you boot into everything else. The key is letting OS/2 boot   
   manager be at the top of the boot chain. That's the only way it can all   
   work.   
      
   It's wild, maybe crazy.  But it's proof of hardware stability when you   
   can get all these different operating systems running on it.   
      
   --- PCBoard (R) v15.4/M 250 Beta   
    * Origin: Torres Vedras - Portugal (2:362/6)