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Title: OS/2, Linux and invalid partition tables

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OS/2, Linux and invalid partition tables

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: > 11/95
Kernel version: > 1.2.13

Symptom:

You have installed OS/2 and Linux onto a hard disk. After the Linux installation either

Cause:

During the Linux installation you have probably declared in the menu for the LILO configuration that either the Linux partition or the logic drives, in which you have installed Linux, should be activated.

The boot loader in the master boot record does not find anymore a valid bootable partition, since the boot manager partition is not activated anymore.

Solution:

First of all: stay calm, your data is still on the disk! It works to activate again the OS/2 boot manager partition and to free the Linux partitions from the "active" status. Please proceed as follows. Now your boot manager should start again and no more error messages should appear.

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Keywords: OS/2, OS2, BOOT, BOOT PROBLEM, PARTITION

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