From: speedy@fm11ap01.tu-graz.ac.at (Walter Schober) Subject: Re: Help with LILO and OS/2 Bootmanager Date: 1 Apr 1993 10:30:15 GMT
Ken Rice (rice@ecn.purdue.edu) wrote:
: In article <1odf41INNndu@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, Scott.Jordahl@eng.sun.com (Scott A. Jordahl) writes:
: |> I'm having problems getting LILO to work with the OS/2 (2.1b)
: |> bootmanager on my system. My system has SCSI disks only with MSDOS on
: |> the entire first disk, OS/2 on the first partition of the second disk,
: |> Linux root installed on a second primary partition of the second disk,
: |> and /usr on an extended partition on the second disk.
: |>
: |> I followed the directions as best I could. When booting I get "LI" on
: |> the screen, so I am close (I think?). My second disk drive has >1024
: |> cylinders, so my controller (AHA-1542B) is performing some re-mapping.
: |>
: |> I have not yet used the "disktab" file when configuring/installing
: |> LILO, so I'm letting the LILO install program figure the disk geometry
: |> out itself. In the LILO documentation there is mention of a MSDOS based
: |> program call "dparam.com" that is suppose to give you the parameters
: |> you need to put into the "disktab" file. Where is this program?? I
: |> cannot find it anywhere. I have looked on both sunsite.unc.edu and
: |> tsx-11.mit.edu with no avail. In place of it, can I just use the
: |> information provided by Linux fdisk? If so, how do I interpret the
: |> data? Would this even help solve my problem?
: |>
: |> I am using the version of LILO that comes with the SLS distribution
: |> (0.7?).
: |>
: |> Thanks for the help,
: |>
: |> -- Scott
: |>
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: I have, almost, exactly the same problem. The only changes to make
: for my system are:
: [.....]
: I HAVE tried the disktab with various entries... no luck.
: [....]
: I can only think of one possibility. Does LILO get along with the
: ext2fs? If not, I suppose I could set up a small Minix fs partition
: to boot from. Any opinions? ...Ken
: Ken Rice rice@ecn.purdue.edu ...!pur-ee!rice
: Senior Systems Engineer, Engineering Computer Network
: Electrical Engineering Department, Purdue University
: West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1285 (317)494-6678
I have the same Problem too, but with the difference, that I use a third HD in my System.
I tried it with a small Minix-Partition, but the result was, that the System tried to read
from the A-Drive and wrote a lot of '8000' on the screnn until I inserted the bootdisk again.
I used the 'dd bs=8192 if=/Image of=/dev/hda2'-Command to bring the same Image, what was
brought to bootdisk, to this small Minix-Partition.
I start this Image with the OS/2 Bootmanager, which is is installed on
hda3, a DOS-Partiotion take Place on hda1 and my root is mounted to sdb1 (Yes of course,
some People might think, that I should through away my MFM-Disk.[OS/2 is on sda1]).
LILO doesn't work anyway. because I don't know, what are the BIOS-Code and the Device-
Number for the Device sdb1, what should be in the disktab-File !
So what can I do to tell my bootsector and my loader included in the Image-File that it
should use the /dev/hda2 to load the kernel from instead of the /dev/fd0 !
Walter Schober speedy@fm11ap08.tu-graz.ac.at