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Hey,

I created two logical partitions under os/2.  loaded linux (redhat 2.1)
installed packages I required. set LILO.  I told the setup manager to
place LILO in the superblock of the root partition.  I rebooted
went into OS/2 ran fdisk and placed linux in the boot manager menu.
I again rebooted, Boot manager came up, displaying DOS, OS/2 and LINUX.
I selected Linux and got the message that the partition could not be
recognized.

What gives?  Will I be forced to reinstall?

Help appreciated.

Brian  

Can you boot from a floppy and then load Linux from there?  Are you SCSI
or IDE?  What is your exact configuration?  What make/model/brand of
HDD's?  The more info, the better.

-Chandler

Quote:> Help appreciated.
> Brian  

Quote:>> What gives?  Will I be forced to reinstall?
>Unfortunately, I think you will.  Someone correct me if I'm wrong (and
>I may well be...), but when I set up the same basic thing (Only with
>Slakware, Redhat/Caldera, FreeBSD, OS/2, and DOS), I had to put the
>Linux file systems on Primary paritions.  I think I tried Logical and
>it didn't work (but it could have been FreeBSD that was screwing up,
>too...).

You need to set up Boot Manager to point to your OS/2 and Linux
partitions, then (this is the important part) install Lilo on the
superblock of your Linux parition.  Boot Manager will happily boot
Lilo, which will then happily boot Linux.

Of course, I didn't discover this until two installs and much
reformatting later to try and figure out why the partition wasn't
recognized ;-)

Chances are what you'll have to do is use a boot disk or the install
disks to mount your root filesystem, then you can install Lilo on the
Linux partition without reinstalling.

Cheers,
Chris.
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: > Hey,
:
: > I created two logical partitions under os/2.  loaded linux (redhat 2.1)
: > installed packages I required. set LILO.  I told the setup manager to
: > place LILO in the superblock of the root partition.  I rebooted
: > went into OS/2 ran fdisk and placed linux in the boot manager menu.
: > I again rebooted, Boot manager came up, displaying DOS, OS/2 and LINUX.
: > I selected Linux and got the message that the partition could not be
: > recognized.
:
: > What gives?  Will I be forced to reinstall?
Did you create the partitions with os/2's fdisk? if oyu did not,
than you will have trouble.