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Re: boot floppies status report



Bruce Perens writes:
> 
> > I am using OS/2's BootManager [...]
> > I have my root as /dev/hdb1, however if I put lilo there,
> > BootManager refuses to recognize the partition as bootable,
> > so I set up LILO on /dev/hdb5.
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing more about this. My assumption was that the
> OS/2 Boot Manager would correctly chain to a LILO partition boot block.

It certainly does for me.  Is /dev/hdb1 a primary partition?

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