Subject: Re: LILO and MBR From: miguel@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es (Miguel Alvarez Blanco) Date: 1 Oct 1993 18:47:27 +0100
dikui021 (dikui021@diku.dk) wrote:
: Hi Linuxers,
: I've installed lilo on my two-disk SCSI system on which i also run
: (ran) OS/2 and occasionally DOS. LILO has installed itself on the
: Master Boot Record and is unable to boot OS/2. It can, however,
: occasionally boot OS/2's Boot Manager, but that seems to have
: crashed, why I dont know.
: How do I boot OS/2 from LILO? OS/2 and Linux Swap is on disk 1
: and Linux fs and DOS is on disk 2. I dunno where the MBR is,
: presumably on disk 1, but DOS FDISK says the disk is not
: startable and furthermore Linux FDISK and DOS FDISK swap
: the drives such that /dev/sda == disk2 and /dev/sdb == disk2.
: What's going on?
: maz
: (halgrim@diku.dk)
Try with the config file of lilo, /etc/lilo/config. Read lilo docs (if they
are not in your system, search at sunsite), they tell you how to set up
lilo for booting everything. I use it to boot DR-DOS, and I know that it
can boot OS/2 too.
Good luck!
Miguel Alvarez Blanco "All that is gold does not glitter,
miguel@hobbit.quimica.uniovi.es not all those who wander are lost."
miguel@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es Bilbo Baggins.