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- From: mrex@indigo0 (Martin Rex)
- Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Lilo and OS/2 bootmanager
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.054308.13598@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 05:43:08 GMT
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- Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch) wrote:
- : 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 ...
-
- Maybe, maybe not. I am using shoelace, and everything works fine.
- I assume it can't be that evil then. I haven't noticed any problems
- when updating to 0.98pl6 with shoelace. ;-)
-
- I'll change to LILO when you can get it working after Bootmanager
- to load Linux from a primary partition off the second (scsi-)drive.
-
- :
- : > 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.
-
- Mine is on a logical partition, so I currently need Bootmanager.
-
- -Martin
-