[plug] Another LILO issue, any ideas.

[Len Bird]

John Summerfield wrote:

> > 98 O/S 2 ver 4 and Linux to fiue up without any problems. The core of the
> > system is O.S 2s Boot Manager, which has been arm twisted into accepting a
>
> Bootmanager doesn't need any arm-twisting.
>
> > fourth  O/S. The only snag is that ther is nearly no room left on the drive
> > for applications, these have to be located on a second dr third drive. I
> > also tried it on a 4.3 Gig drive, it balked at starting Linux from the Boot
> > Manager , but accepted a Floppy Disk start up. This may have been due to
>
> Starts linux perfectly well here. I have
>
> NT 4
> Warp Connect
> Warp 4
> RHL 6
> RHL 5
>
> plus assorted OS/2 maintenance & testing partitions - all these (ecept
> /dev/hda4) are bootable:
> Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 782 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4128768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *      0+      0       1-     4000+   a  OS/2 Boot Manager
> /dev/hda2          1     102     102    411264   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3        103     204     102    411264    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda4        205     780     576   2322432    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5   *    205+    306     102-   411232+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda6   *    307+    319      13-    52384+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda7   *    320+    332      13-    52384+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda8   *    333+    561     229-   923296+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda9   *    562+    780     219-   882976+  83  Linux
> [root at possum summer]#
>
> I also have RHL 5 on my second drive and bootmanager boots that. OS/2
> would also boot from the second drive if I installed it there; I've done
> that before.
>
> --
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
> http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
> Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.

Obviously your 4.1 G-Byte HD has BIOS translation support whereas the situation I
referred to was on a 486DX4 machine which DID NOT support this. The limitation on
Boot Manager is where the O/S is seen as being on the C: drive. I am well aware
that OS/2 , NT4 and Linux can all be located elswehere. The 1024 Cylinder
limitation on O/Ss on HDs can be circumvented by proprietory software, but this
does not always work out as one might wish.

Cheers  Len Bird