Thanks to all of you who have replied to my previous posts but I'm not
quite there yet.
Boot Manager starts OS/2 just fine but won't start LILO. I can boot from
installation CD. Booting from the CD brings up the KDE interface, and
Linux sees the hard disk just fine after that. When selecting Linux Bt
(which points to /dev/hda7) on the Boot Manager menu, I get an error
message saying "Selected partition is not formatted, hit any key".
After an abortive attempt to use Corel Linux, I have totally
repartitioned my hard drive and reinstalled OS/2 Warp 4 and attempted to
install Caldrea OpenLinux 2.3, however, I can't boot Linux. I based my
installation loosely on the "Linux-DOS-Win95-OS2" mini-HOWTO by Mike
Harlan. I have a 17 gig IDE HDD configured as a 16.4 gig drive. I used
OS/2's fdisk to do all the partitioning, and used installation disks
modified with IDEDASD program for
large drives (downloaded from IBM). History and some details follow:
My OS/2 FDISK screen looks like the table below; the last column is how
I understand how linux maps the partitions:
Name Status Access FS
Type MBytes
________________________________________________________________
/dev/hda
DOS Bootable C: Primary
FAT 2000 /dev/hda1
Startable : Primary BOOT
MANAGER 7 /dev/hda2
None D: Logical
FAT 2000 /dev/hda5
OS/2 Bootable E: Logical
HPFS 604 /dev/hda6
Linux Bt Bootable :Logical Type
83 102 /dev/hda7
None F:Logical
HPFS 5404 /dev/hda8
Linux Bootable :Logical Type
83 6102 /dev/hda9
None :Pri/Log
FreeSpace 219
My intent was to put LILO in the Linux Bt partition (/dev/hda7) and I
believe this is what I did, although I'm not sure.. This
partition and the OS/2 partition (/dev/hda6) are below the 1024 cylinder
boundary. I thought LILO had to be in the / partition, however when I
specified /dev/hda7 for / Caldera tried to put the entire Linux OS in
that partition which is obviously too small. Instead I put / in the
other type 83 partition, /dev/hda9,which is above the 1024 boundary.
When booting from CD at the boot: prompt I tried passing root=/dev/hda7
and root=/dev/hda9 and get an error message "Could not find kernel
image: root=/dev/hda.7". Also tried just typing /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda9
on separate boot attempts and got a similar error message.
Does / have to be below the 1024 cylinder boundary? Can I move LILO to
the smaller Type 83 partition? How?
I also tried installing System Commander. It would boot DOS and OS/2 but
not COL 2.3.
My /etc/lilo.conf file looks like the following:
#
# /etc/lilo.conf - generated by Lizard
#
# target
boot = /dev/hda7
install = /boot/boot.b
#options
prompt
delay = 50
timeout = 50
message = /boot/message
default = linux
Once booted from cd it appears that Linux does not see /dev/hda7 or any
other partition but /dev/hda9
Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
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