Re: Installation Question (IBM TP 560)
Justin,
I hope you get an answer to your question: I've been battling for
several weeks to get a Linux partition up that will boot when the IBM
boot manager is used to select the linux partition, but with Debian, I
get the same result you report.
I've been able to install RedHat without any problems unless I tell it
to write the MBR.
Big mistake: after that, I could not boot my first partition - my
Win95B/fat32 partition. My local linux guru located an undocumented DOS
fdisk switch (fdisk /mbr) that cleared the problem, saving me having to
reformat and reinstall all my Win95 software.
I've been real unwilling to mess with the linux stuff since then.
Dave
Justin Liu wrote:
> and used the Tecra boot disks and got it to work.
>
> My problem now is that I want to have Linux coexist with other OS's via
> the OS/2 Boot Manager. I set up my partitions using OS/2 fdisk and
> installed Boot Manager. Then I ran the Debian install program to get a
> base system installed. When prompted about having LILO write the MBR
> and making Linux the default, I answered no to both questions. Now, when
> I reboot and select the Linux partition in BM, it reports that the
> "partition is not formatted." and goes back to BM. I can boot up with
> the boot floppy created during installation.
>
> - Justin
> justin@quickturn.com
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