On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:19:26 +0000, John Poltorak <jp@eyup.org> wrote:

>Martin Herbert Dietze wrote:
>
>>Currently I boot OS/2 using LILO (Linux is my primary OS)
>>which is fine. However since GRUB provides some things I would
>>like to have, I gave it a try.
>>
>>
>
>What is GRUB? And can it be ported to OS/2?

Hi John - nice to see you again.

You can replace BM with grub - you can even daisy chain grub and BM
(bog knows why you'd want to.)

Grub, as I suspect you already know, is the much simpler to use
replacement for LILO - in short, a boot manager. Porting it to OS/2
would be sort of silly, since by the time OS/2 has booted enough to
run it, it would be redundant.

Mike-

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 16:22:50 UTC, "Dave {Reply Address in.sig}"
<noone$$@llondel.org> wrote:

> I finally fired up my dual-boot machine today and had a look at grub.conf.
> It has
>
> title OS/2
> root (hd0,1)
> makeactive
> # chainload OS/2 bootloader from the first sector
> chainloader +1
>
> as the relevant OS/2 entry, on my system this results in the OS/2 boot
> manager being started which then drops through to OS/2 itself. Obviously
> this won't work for everyone, change the (hd0,1) as required for where your
> OS/2 boot partition might be.

Going from memory here, having played around, unsuccessfully with
Lilo, to do the same thing on my laptop, with OS/2, Win98 and Limux,
there is a very real possibility that you also need to 'makehidden'
any other active partition.

I never did get it working properly... and then I munged the partition
table and blew away the Linux partition. I suspect that one of the
reasons for the failure was that I tried (I really really tried!!!)
and suceeded in attempting to boot with 2 TWO! active C: partitions...
Luckily, I was able to fdisk /newmbr from a floppy boot...but all of
the two-step boot with Lilo was lost..

Geoff

John Poltorak wrote:

> What is GRUB? And can it be ported to OS/2?

.... boot manager. no reason to - it's OS agnostic
..
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:19:26 +0000, in article
<1067167070.93941@ananke.eclipse.net.uk>, John Poltorak wrote:

> What is GRUB?

It's the GRand Unified Booloader from the Free Software Foundation.

> And can it be ported to OS/2?

It may not be necessary. If it supports the filesystem, you can write the
necessary files to a floppy disk, boot the floppy, and install it.

However, I don't have an "hpfs_stage1_5" on my (Linux) system. Does that
mean GRUB's configuration files can't be loaded from an HPFS partition?