> 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
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 ;-)
> - 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,
No, this job is done by "OS2LDR". The OS/2 bootmanager
only looks for this program and if it could find it
will handle loading it into memory (it does however
provide some routines to enable loading OS/2 from
extended partitions and has its own routines to
access areas on disk beyond 1024 cylinders and 512 MByte.
> but see below:
> For advanced gameplay you should get the ext2 IFS
> hacked by some kind person whose name I don't
> remember
Matthieu WILLM
> - 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.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/matthieu.willm/ext2-os2/index.html
Is the main page for ext2os2
http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/drivers/ifs/index.html
here you will find some other OS/2 IFS (Installable File
System --- for those not known to OS/2 terminology).
--
Thomas
