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I currently have 3 hard drives and a CD-ROM on my machine.  I am
using LILO to boot from my 1st hard drive to select between:

Windows 95 (on the first hard drive [C: in DOS] by itself)
Windows 3.1 (on the third partition on the 2nd drive [D: in DOS])
Linux (on the second partition on the 2nd drive [/dev/hdb2])
OS/2 (on the third hard drive [C: in OS/2] by itself in HPFS)

Windows 95, Windows 3.1 and Linux work just fine, but when I do
/sbin/liloconfig I get a warning message about BIOS and my OS/2
partition and sure enough it will not boot to OS/2.

I know the OS/2 is on the drive as I installed OS/2 on this drive
by uninstalling the other two hard drives and installing it as the
C: drive.  Then I re-installed the other two drives and moved the
OS/2 drive to the third drive position.

Now:  Is the problem caused by HPFS?  Is it caused by Lilo not
recognizing /dev/hdc?  And better yet how do I get out of this
without having to reformat either of my first two drives.  (Drives
1 and 2 are both over a gigabyte and are both at least half full.)

All ideas are welcome.

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Keith MacDonald Miller
3910 Chapel Forge Drive, Bowie, MD 20715-1312 -- 301-805-1854

Quote:> I currently have 3 hard drives and a CD-ROM on my machine.  I am
> using LILO to boot from my 1st hard drive to select between:

> Windows 95 (on the first hard drive [C: in DOS] by itself)
> Windows 3.1 (on the third partition on the 2nd drive [D: in DOS])
> Linux (on the second partition on the 2nd drive [/dev/hdb2])
> OS/2 (on the third hard drive [C: in OS/2] by itself in HPFS)

                                 ^^^^^^^^^^
There's part of your problem.  It won't be C: in OS/2, as OS/2 sees at
least C: and D: from DOS in addition to its own drive.  That means that
OS/2 is installed on drive E: (from its perspective), assuming it was
able to boot at all.  The OS/2 config files and .INI files are probably
set for drive C: and not for E:.  This alone might kill it even if
everything else worked.

Quote:> Windows 95, Windows 3.1 and Linux work just fine, but when I do
> /sbin/liloconfig I get a warning message about BIOS and my OS/2
> partition and sure enough it will not boot to OS/2.

More of the problem is that (I'm not positive about this, but...) I'm
pretty sure that the BIOS won't boot off anything but the first two
drives.  More information on "will not boot to OS/2" might help - e.g.
how far does it get?  Just not work at all, get part way through and
then die, ?

Quote:> I know the OS/2 is on the drive as I installed OS/2 on this drive
> by uninstalling the other two hard drives and installing it as the
> C: drive.  Then I re-installed the other two drives and moved the
> OS/2 drive to the third drive position.

> Now:  Is the problem caused by HPFS?  Is it caused by Lilo not
> recognizing /dev/hdc?  And better yet how do I get out of this
> without having to reformat either of my first two drives.  (Drives
> 1 and 2 are both over a gigabyte and are both at least half full.)

> All ideas are welcome.

There's also something I think I recall about OS/2 not liking to be
booted from anything other than Boot Manager.  Maybe someone who's had
some more experience with this can help.  I don't know anything other
than reformatting, but that doesn't mean there isn't another way.  I
just don't know it :-).

Stephen Ryan    Team OS/2
Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College