Re: SuSE under Boot Manager?, part II

From: herman Kaemingk (herman.kaemingk_hkNOSPAM_at_hccnet.nl)
Date: 01/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:22:05 +0100

Moi,

Last week I installed an upgrade SuSE 9.0, but did nevertheless a
complete new install. I can not remember a problem with Boot Manager,
for I changed some drives: startable and the bigger for '/' , /opt,
/home and of course a swap partition.
I have one disk with OS2, eCS, WinNT and SuSE.
For changing something a 'commit changes' was necessary with LVM (after
installing).
A remark: when booting WinNT, it made a mess of the drive numbers, I
mean 'C' was suddenly 'K' or so. Solved it with its Administator: just
renaming the proper disks for NT.

I hope you have new ideas.
Success
herman

> Am about to install SuSE 9.0 on my secondary machine, but I'm
> having problems with Boot Manager. At this point these issues
> are old hat for most everyone, so I'm hoping my questions won't
> be too hard to answer:
>
> 1) box has one SCSI and one IDE drive, and is set to boot from
> the SCSI first.
>
> 2) I'll be trying to install SuSE near the end of the IDE drive
>
> Disk 2
>
> Partition Information
> Name Status Access FS Type MBytes
>
> None : Primary FreeSpace 7
> None I: Logical FAT 1992
> None J: Logical FAT 2000
> None K: Logical FAT 2000
> None L: Logical FAT 2000
> None M: Logical FAT 2000
> None N: Logical FAT 2000
> None O: Logical FAT 2000
> None P: Logical FAT 3600
> None Q: Logical FAT 250
> None R: Logical FAT 1687
>
>
> on P: shown above. (Thanks to Felix Miata for suggesting those
> sizes -- I had hoped to find more notes on VPART at
> http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html but there's
> just a link to VPART there.)
>
> I have the expart fix installed, yet when I started FDISK the
> choice to mark P: as bootable is greyed out (because of mixed
> SCSI and IDE drives?) So, I'm thinking at this point perhaps I
> ought to use a boot loader -- looking through Google I get a
> good sense of VPART, but there's also AIRBOOT. I'm open for
> recommendations.
>
> I'm used to getting Boot Manager working before installing an OS
> but if I use VPART, say, I guess I'd need to just get Linux set
> up in its partition and then start up VPART (which I understand
> I'd use in conjunction with Boot Manager - that is, VPART would
> offer a choice between SuSE and BM) -- correct?
>
> Finally, can I install VPART from a hard disk boot of OS/2, or
> do I need to boot from diskette?
>
> --
>
> -rafe t.
> www.ray-field.com

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