On 28-Mar-96 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Good day everone, > I have a problem I hoping that someone could shed some light on. > > I used to have a Linux partition on 203MB HDD and an OS_2 one >(formatted FAT to permit Linux writes). The whole setup was configured to boot >via Lilo. Now I have mysteriously aquired another HDD and wanted to reinstall >Linux on the new disk (slave) and OS2 on the primary. So I reformatted the >first HDD and started an OS2 install. The problem was that when I reached the >stage where OS2 tries to reboot the computer Lilo gets hold of the system and >orse, when I ask it to boot OS2 as it did previously it hangs. As you can >imagine it cannot boot Linux becaus the partition has been formatted so that >hangs in a kernel panic too. Now I have reformatted the partition several times >(HPFS, FAT, EXT2) all to no avail Lilo seems somehow to have taken hold of the >system and wouldn't let go.. > I seem to remember that in DOS you need to use fdisk /MBR to clean the master b oot record. Make sure you read the OS/2 manual to check if it applies because I am not sure if it will have any other unwelcome d consecuences.
Luis.Luis Francisco Gonzalez Hernandez School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QH United Kingdom http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/luisgh -------- Luis Francisco Gonzalez Hernandez School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QH United Kingdom http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/luisgh
