Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:05:39 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 677 ************************************************** Sunday 08 January 2006 Number 677 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Grub on OS/2 without Linux? : Jon Saxton **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:45:56 -0500 From: Jon Saxton Subject: Re: Grub on OS/2 without Linux? I did it about two years ago as an experiment. Unfortunately I can't remember the details. All I can tell you is that I did it from a bootable linux CD and I used an ext2 partition. It was either the Gentoo or LNX-BBC distributions, probably LNX-BBC but I'm not sure. I had grub choosing between Win2K and OS/2 quite happily and OS/2 was booting from a logical partition same as with Boot Manager. Afterwards I abandoned grub in favour of AiR-Boot which is an MBR-resident manager. AiR-Boot is loading OS/2 from an LVM partition, something that BM doesn't allow. I don't know if grub would have let me do that. Of course getting OS/2 installed on an LVM partition is another story ... Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > Has anyone here installed Grub on an OS/2 box without Linux? I > understand that I can do this with a VFAT partition, but I haven't yet > stumbled upon the directions to do this. Making a Grub floppy is no > problem (I have Linux boxes running), it's just getting it onto the new > system of which I'm unsure. > > TIA > -- Jon Saxton Shopkeeper, Numismatist-in-training Developer of cross-platform software for UNIX, OS/2 and Windows U.S. Agent for Triton Technologies International Ltd http://www.triton.vg/