Hello Thomas!
On Mon, 26 June 2000 at 21:46:56, you wrote:
>
> There is: the first sector of the partition holds
> boot code for OS/2. This code will be used if you
> boot without OS/2 bootmanager straight from a
> primary partition (I am using this with my OS/2
> servers. Since there is no other OS I do not need
> a bootmanager on a server ;-)
Stupid me - now I remember what I used to do - let
OS/2 have it's bootloader partition during installation
just to create an ext2 fs on it afterwards in order to
replace the dreaded OS/2 loader with Grub. Primary
partitions only, though.
> No, this job is done by "OS2LDR".
That's the bit I didn't memorize well - I thought it
was the OS/2 bootmanagers' duty but you are right of
course - Matthieu WILLM had to write a replacement
OS2LDR in order to boot from the ext2 due to the fact
that OS2LDR didn't know jack about the ext2. Of course
- it's a long time ago since I ditched OS/2 in favor
of GNU software and I got an important detail wrong
already, so take it with a grain of salt.
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/matthieu.willm/ext2-os2/index.html
>
> Is the main page for ext2os2
Thanks a lot for the corrections and pointers. I myself lost
track of things related to OS/2, so maybe you could add some
useful information with respect to OS/2 to the Grub manual?
That would be nice... ;-)
/bye
Dirk
