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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Lilo and OS/2 bootmanager
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.044626.5356@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <BERNHARD.92Dec8094014@t524i3.telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:46:26 GMT
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- 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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