Bug#250674: Installation report: i386 sid on second harddisk
On Thu, 27 May 2004 13:32:26 -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>* Herbert Kaminski <Herbert.Kaminski@t-online.de> [2004-05-24 14:47]:
>> (1)OS-prober correctly recognized the linux on hda as SuSE 9.0 and
>> the Win98 on hda and WinXP on hdc, but misinterpreted the OS/2 on
>> hda as yet another Win98/ME/2000. However, I was only able to
>> boot Sid or SuSE, not Win or OS/2.
>
>Do you know how to properly identify an OS/2 partition?
Well, if you see the abiguous partition type 10 (I believe) and cannot
mount it as NTFS, then it is probably HPFS and that means OS/2. It
might, however, not be bootable. If you find the file 'OS2BOOT' on any
HPFS or FAT16 partition's root directory, then you may assume it is able
to boot OS/2.
>Do you know why Win98 didn't boot? Is this the same problem as
>described at http://bugs.debian.org/248509 ?
Two of the three Win98s could not boot because they were not on
Drive C: of the first disk, so this was not D-I's fault. Unfortunately, I cannot
investigate further why the third Win and the OS/2 did not boot because
the primary disk of that setup died a few days later. I am now using the
former hdc as hda, and with only a correction of the partition in menu.lst
from hd0,2 to hd0,0 it now boots fine. As soon as I got another spare drive
and a little time, I will retry the two disk setup.
Herbert
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