Hello Frank Jacobberger!
On Sat, 24 June 2000 at 10:10:05, you wrote:
> Just wondered if anyone has found away to get
> OS/2 Warp 4 to chain load with WIN95, Linux?
I did it a couple of years back - please try to
chainload the first block of OS/2's bootmanager
partition - attempts to just chainload your
HPFS volume will fail because there is nothing
that could load the OS/2 kernel at the start of
that partition - hence OS/2's bootmanager in the
first place. To be a bit more specific - the
OS/2 bootloader does roughly the same as Grub
does for GNUmach - at least that is what I
remember, but see below:
For advanced gameplay you should get the ext2 IFS
hacked by some kind person whose name I don't
remember - he got OS/2's kernel to load straight
from the ext2 (involves quite a lot of trickery),
provides drive ordering in the startup file
"[boot-drive]:\config.sys" and also has limited
mount and unmount capabilities - ext2 floppy disks
are supported as well, BTW. As an added bonus you
get decent documentation as an OS/2 INF-file - one
more reason to fetch this great piece of GPL'ed
software - it's probably somewhere on a standard
Hobbes CD-ROM, so you may already have it readily
available.
(If I remember right there used to be an example
configuration entry I once submitted in the file
'menu.lst' that comes with Grub. Oh - and be sure
to read Grub's documentation - OKUJI Yoshinori
went to a lot of trouble to document his work, so
please take a look - after all - if you use the
software without using the documentation you will
only get half the fun and you will also make
Yoshi and some other kind people unhappy. You don't
want that, do you?)
Have fun!
/bye
Dirk
