From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: Booting Linux with the OS/2 Boot Manager Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1993 04:46:56 GMT
In article <1993Aug7.205049.3485@cs.uoregon.edu> santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Wes Santee) writes:
>In article <1993Aug7.184131.7603@ultb.isc.rit.edu> djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith) writes:
>>In article <1993Aug7.050756.6112@colorado.edu> lessem@ibg.colorado.edu (LESSEM JEFFREY M) writes:
>>}
>>}I know this thread went through a while ago, but I didn't pay much
>>}attention because at the time I wasn't interested.
>>}
>>}If it was ever resolved: is there any way to boot Linux using the OS/2
>>}Boot Manager? Currently OS/2 and Linux are happily coexisting, but I have
>>}to use a Linux boot disk to get to Linux.
>>
>>Yes, It can be done. You really ought to read the Linux faq about it
>>though... it is kinda tricky, but it works. I ended up using lilo and
>>everything worked fine.
Why not boot with lilo, and have it boot OS/2. This is what I do.
It took 10 seconds to set up. Append something like
other=/dev/hda3
table=/dev/hda
label=os2
to /etc/lilo/config. Give boot manager the boot.
Peter