From: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
Date: 12/12/92


From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Lilo and OS/2 bootmanager
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:46:26 GMT

In article <BERNHARD.92Dec8094014@t524i3.telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de> bernhard@t524i3.telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Christoph Bernhardt) writes:
> Making the Linux partition bootable -- while disabling the bootmanager --
> works just fine. Lilo comes up and bootstraps correctly. But when I
> reactivate the bootmanager and chose the Linux partition from the
> bootmanagers menu the screen blanks and the first "L" of the Lilo
> bootmessage appears, and that's it.

Getting only an "L" means that LILO can't load its second stage loader.
Maybe Bootmanager is doing something evil here ...

> Is there another way to chose a boot partition during the boot process?

Well yes, LILO can probably do that if OS/2 is on a primary partition.

Old-style configuration: os2=/etc/lilo/chain.b+/dev/hdaxx@/dev/hda
New-style configuration:
other = /dev/hdaxxx
  table = /dev/hda
  label = os2

- Werner

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