Booting OS/2 (LILO)
J.Ashfield
Does anyone know for sure if LILO can Boot OS/2 from the 2nd hard disk?
Where OS/2 is in a LOGICAL partition ? HPFS formated as well.
If not is there any other boot program that will? except os/2 boot
manager that is.
Thanks,
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Singularity
: Hi,
: Thanks,
Use boot manager and direct LILO to boot manager.
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> Does anyone know for sure if LILO can Boot OS/2 from the 2nd hard disk?
> Where OS/2 is in a LOGICAL partition ? HPFS formated as well.
I've seen various conflicting postings on what sorts of OS/2 installations
LILO can boot. The nearest thing I've managed to figure out is that LILO
will *NOT* boot OS/2 if it's on a logical partition. :-( If you want to use
LILO as the main boot loader and have the space for an extra logical
partition, one possible workaround I've seen posted is to install OS/2's Boot
Manager and set it up to auto-boot OS/2 with a 1-second delay; then install
LILO and point it to Boot Manager rather than the OS/2 boot partition itself.
--Rod Smith
RSM...@PSYCH.COLORADO.EDU
Singularity
: In message <405e6v$8...@ccuf.wlv.ac.uk> - cm1...@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk (J.Ashfield) w
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This boots os2 from the first disk, but since it uses boot manager it should
boot any partition recognized by boot manager. Note that /dev/sda2 is hpfs.
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# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/sda
prompt # waits indefinately response
vga = ask # asks which text video mode to use - I like 132x44
ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/sdb1
label = linux
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda3 # this is the os2 boot manager
label = dos
table = /dev/sda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
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Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 699 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 351 351 699 357376 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sda2 2 2 350 357376 17 Unknown
/dev/sda3 * 1 1 1 1008 a OS/2 Boot Manager
Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 699 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1 670 686079+ 83 Linux native
Partition 1 does not start on cylinder boundary:
phys=(0, 0, 2) should be (0, 1, 1)
/dev/sdb2 671 671 699 29696 82 Linux swap
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Perry Grieb
In article <cygnusx1D...@netcom.com>, cygn...@netcom.com (Singularity) writes:
|> J.Ashfield (cm1...@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk) wrote:
|> : Hi,
|>
|> : Does anyone know for sure if LILO can Boot OS/2 from the 2nd hard disk?
|> : Where OS/2 is in a LOGICAL partition ? HPFS formated as well.
|>
|> : manager that is.
|>
|> : Thanks,
|>
|>
|> : *****************************************************************
|> : * Jim Ashfield Email: cm1...@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk *
|> : * Web Home Page: http://scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1999/ *
|> : *****************************************************************
|>
|>
|> Use boot manager and direct LILO to boot manager.
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I picked the other way cuz I could get it to work. Bootmanager
invokes lilo (lilo is installed in the partition, not on the boot
sectors, of the 2nd drive). Maybe I didn't try having lilo kick
up the bootmanager... Interesting. Thanks
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c> From: cygn...@netcom.com (Singularity)
c> * Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
c> J.Ashfield (cm1...@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk) wrote:
c> : Hi,
c> : Does anyone know for sure if LILO can Boot OS/2 from the 2nd hard
disk?
c> : Where OS/2 is in a LOGICAL partition ? HPFS formated as well.
c> : If not is there any other boot program that will? except os/2
boot
c> : manager that is.
I've just finished going the other way-- bringing up LILO from OS/2's
Boot Manager. I've got a swap patition on hard drive 0 (/dev/hda) and
the Linux boot partition on hard drive 1 (/dev/hdb). Both partitions
were created using DOS's fdisk. They had to be declared as primary,
since Linux's fdisk wouldn't deal with extended partitions. LILO,
following the instructions provided in my Slackware package, went into
the root.
So maybe you don't need to use LILO to bring up OS/2.
Max Froumentin
> Use boot manager and direct LILO to boot manager.
I have a small problem about this. I use Boot Manager to choose between
my Linux ans OS/2 (FAT filesystem) partitions. Everything is fine, except
when I want to boot DOS. I type "boot /dos" in an OS/2 shell and the
system stops. But it automatically reboots on LILO! (the same happens
the other way round, when I boot /os2). Could you help me on this ?
Max.
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