Antwort: Working with OS/2 Warp 4?
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
Re: Antwort: Working with OS/2 Warp 4?
From: Dirk Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Antwort: Working with OS/2 Warp 4? Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:58:10 +0200 (CEST) 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... ;-) Definitely. Please don't hesitate to contribute to GRUB. I'm not an OS/2 user, so you may not expect me to write anything about OS/2. Okuji
Re: Antwort: Working with OS/2 Warp 4?
Hello OKUJI Yoshinori! On Wed, 28 June 2000 at 00:55:47, you wrote: Definitely. Please don't hesitate to contribute to GRUB. I'm not an OS/2 user, so you may not expect me to write anything about OS/2. BTW - Matthieu WILLM has even better documentation available these days and he provides a HTML version on his pages as well - just looked it up to refresh what I once knew about it. Actually the OS2LDR-thingy oversimplifies matters as well since the whole boot process is rather complicated. It surprised me how much I forgot about it - after all - I once maintained a nice FAQ entry on the subject matter. Anyway - I can't do it anymore since I stopped using proprietary system software, so maybe we should just point people to Matthieu WILLMs' decent web pages for the time being. Of course - it would be even better if someone were willing to explain how Grub goes along with OS/2 since there still is no glue between the Grub manual and Matthieu WILLMs' documentation. (That might seem strange since IBM ought to be the definite source of Information here, but it really is Matthieu WILLM who provides all the detailed background information.) /bye Dirk
