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- From: mjb@mulka (Michael Beeching)
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- Subject: LILO and OS/2 Help!!!
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:40:52 GMT
- Organization: University of Melbourne
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- I'm having some major, major problems with lilo and linux on
- my system and I hope that some kind person can help me.
-
- I'm using Linux SLS 0.98 pl 1-37
- and Lilo 0.8
-
- My setup is two hard disks with Dos, OS/2 and Linux.
- I'd like to use the OS/2 2.0 Boot manager to select which operating system
- boots at start up. OS2 and Linux are on my second hard disk with the
- boot manager on the first.
-
- Firstly, in my LILO config file I had used boot=/dev/hdb5 when I had
- installed Linux in an extended partition. This allowed Linux to boot
- but came up with the error, file system not valid (or some such thing)
- I couldn't even use the boot disk to reboot.
-
- Then after reinstalling Linux in a primary partition on the second disk
- I tried using boot=/dev/hda2 ie, that was a pointer to the second disk.
- as indicated in the LILO manual.
- However after using the boot manager selector I got !OS 2 SYS XXX error
- and of course, no boot.
-
- Then I tried boot=/dev/hda3 in the config file. With the boot manager
- I now get just the "L" in LILO comming up. with these last two methods
- I can still boot Linux from floppy.
-
- Perhaps some kind soul could elighten me on where I should put what
- in order to produce the results I require.
-
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- My current disk set up is,
- /
- /dev/hda1 736 736 751 1088 OPUS
- /dev/hda2 227 227 735 34612 Extd
- /dev/hda3 1 1 124 15359 DOS
- /dev/hda5 227 227 735 34603 DOS
-
- /dev/hdb1 528 528 722 64642 Linux
- /dev/hdb2 1 1 124 41080 DOS
- /dev/hdb3 125 125 527 133594 Extd
- /dev/hdb5 125 125 341 71910 DOS
- /dev/hdb6 342 342 527 61633 DOS
-
- and my config file for LiIO is
- boot=/dev/hda3
- compact
- install=/etc/lilo/boot.b
- image=/Image
-
- any and all help would be greatfully appreciated.
-
- Thanks,
- David Bell
- dcb@electron.ph.unimelb.edu.au
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