CHoose OS v0.80 - Tale of Woe

[Victor Torrico <vtorrico@cfw.com>]

On 97/12/11 at 08:25 AM -0500, Victor Torrico wrote: 

Hello,
  
Think CHOS is the greatest thing since chocolate ice cream.  I have it partially
configured but can't boot all OSs on several partitions.  Obviously it's a case
of cockpit trouble on my part.  I've tried all I can do to get all three
bootable partitions to boot with only partial success.  Here's the sad tale:
  
Running Debian Linux i586 box with two 1.6 GByte EIDE hard drives.  Before I was
using the OS/2 loader and lilo which worked fine for selecting the partition to
boot.  The actual partitions are:
  1.   * /dev/hda2 -  linux OS mounted as / (Use entire drive for linux)
  2.     /dev/hdb6 -  linux OS mounted as /mnt/deb (Use for file storage only)
  3.   * /dev/hdb7 -  linux OS mounted as /mnt/debb (Emergency linux partition)
  4.   * /dev/hdb8 -  OS/2 OS mounted as /mnt/os2 (HPFS)
         
       * = bootable OSs  
         
The names for the three bootable partitions I would use for CHOS would be:
  
/dev/hda2 = Linux A (there are 2 kernels here /boot/vmlinuz & /boot/vmlinuz.old)
/dev/hdb7 = Linux B
/dev/hdb8 = OS/2
  
Right now the only kernel that will load is /boot/vmlinuz.old.  /boot/vmlinuz
will not load.  Also using vchos I couldn't get /dev/hdb7 or /dev/hdb8 to load
no matter what I tried.  It's probably something dumb I'm overlooking.

Please help or point me to where I can get help.
  
My /etc/chos.conf file is: (before I tried other OSs)
  
----snip----
  
# BACKGOUND
background=dump:/boot/bg/chos.bin
  
# MENUPOSITION
menupos=21,16
  
# TIMERPOSITION
timerpos=24,3
  
#   FILE SETTINGS
#
#####################
  
#   IMAGES
#
##############
  
bootsect "DOS" {
  color=lightblue
  image=/dev/hda1
}
  
linux "Linux" {
  color=blue
  image=/vmlinuz
}
  
linux "Old Linux" {
  color=red
  image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
}
  
----snip----
  
I also tried image=/boot/vmlinux under "Linux" with no success (no boot).
"Old Linux" boots fine.  I don't use "DOS" at all so I can simply elininate that
part of the file.
  
  
Regards,
   
-- 
Victor Torrico
  
          ------ Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia ------


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