by Hello,
I have been trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to use LILO to boot
Linux, DOS and OS/2. Unfortunately, my partition table is a bit lacking
in size, so I've needed to improvise. OS/2 is currently on an extended
partition, which I can boot just fine from Boot Manager. The only problem
is, Boot Manager is occupying the partition that I usually use for swap.
My partition table looks like this:
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1 392 790240+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 446 446 609 330624 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 * 620 620 620 2016 a OS/2 Boot Manager
/dev/hda4 393 393 445 106848 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 * 393 393 445 106816+ 7 OS/2 HPFS
I've tried setting up my lilo.conf file to allow me to boot OS/2
directly from the extended partition, so I can get rid of Boot Manager,
but LILO always produces the output:
xanth:~# lilo
Added DOS
Added Linux
Partition entry not found.
The appropriate lines of my lilo.conf file are as follows:
boot = /dev/hda
delay = 50
# other stuff relating to DOS and Linux removed, to cut to the good stuff.
other = /dev/hda5
label = OS/2
table = /dev/hda
It's obvious that LILO isn't seeing extended partitions, at least
not above hda4. What now? Do I need to generate my own table of partiton
entries for LILO to read, and figure out where to boot to from there? Is
any of this possible? Am I all messed up? Help..! :-)
Adios!
-Ryan
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