Johann,
Thanks for the response.
I have solved my problem and now have linux booting from the hard disk
via the Warp Boot Manager. Evidently the problem was that my /
partition was outside the 1023 cyl limit. I thought that / could be in
a logical partition > 1023 cyl if booting was done by a boot manager or
LILO which was below the limit. Guess I was wrong (or maybe my computer
just doesn't know it).
Fortunately I had a few hundred meg disk free space below the limit.
So, I created a partition, added it to boot manager, and then tagged it
in linux fdisk and reinstalled linux. It booted with no problem.
Now I can get down to learning how to *use* linux.
Thanks again.
Tom
s142433 wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
> I use to run OS/2 warp, linux and windows. At the time I never
> bothered running lilo, boot manager worked just fine, except to edit it you
> needed the four boot disks which was a bit boring. From memory I created all
> the partitions that I wanted for linux, including the swap space, using OS/2
> fdisk and then during the install used linux fdisk to change the types. You
> can also get XFree86 for OS/2 warp, which runs quite well, as well as
> utilities for accessing the linux partitions. This was about 2 years ago I
> did this, so I have to think back. I actually found the linux - OS/2
> combination really nice,
>
> cheers
>
> Johann
>
> Tom Bernett wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I saw that the name of this list had 'Newbie' in it, I figured this
> > is the place for me. But, I've been lurking here for a week or so and I
> > must say, YOU GUYS DON'T TALK LIKE NEWBIES!
> >
> > Anyway, I just finished my first install of linux. I put Red Hat 5.2 on
> > a system with OS/2 Warp v3 and Boot Manager. I wanted to put LILO in
> > the linux partition and add that partition to the Boot Manager menu.
> > But during install, when I told it to put LILO in /, it protested. I
> > don't remember the reason it gave for refusing to install LILO where I
> > wanted it.
> >
> > So, I'm booting from floppy.
> >
> > I want to boot to Warp Boot Manager and then select between OS/2 and
> > linux. How do I now install just LILO in / on its own, not as part of
> > the whole linux install?
> >
> > Also, in OS/2s fdisk, the option of adding / (a logical partition) to
> > the Boot Manager menu is greyed out and I'm not able to select it.. In
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/linux-faq/section3.html#os2boot it
> > implies that the partition should be added to Boot Manager before
> > installing linux. Is that necessary? Do I have to re-create that
> > partition, add it to Boot Manager, and re-install linux?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Tom
>
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