R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:
 
> I was never able to get Grub to boot directly to OS/2 or Win.
> I left Boot Manager in place. This is the (edited) grub.conf file:
 
> boot=/dev/hda
> title Red Hat 9 (2.40.20-30-9)
>    root (hd0,9)
>    kernel    etc.....
> title BootManager
>    rootnoverify (hd0,3)
>    makeactive
>    chainloader +1
 
> The only line which is critical is the 'makeactive' as it sets the BM
> partition as the active partition, and therefore able to take control.
> This route means that you can have OS/2 variants/maintenance partitions
> and Win whereever BM can handle them (meaning OS.2 can be in logicals and
> you only need primary partitions for your Win OS.

Because the above menu.lst (grub.conf is Redhat's ln rename of the
standard Grub boot menu as used by other distros) is edited, we can't
know whether makeactive is even relevant. When you use BM to load Grub,
it already is active, and can't be made active again. If it wasn't
active, you wouldn't have seen BM in the first place. Maybe it is
necessary due to having allowed Linux to overwrite the MBR with its own
code, but it certainly isn't routinely necessary in any other case
knowing what you've given.
-- 
"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- his
eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
                                                Romans 1:20 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html



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