I had LILO sucessfully set to boot from /dev/hda2 from OS/2 Boot Manager.
Then I redid the partitioning with OS/2 Fdisk, re-mkfs'ed /dev/hda2,
mounted it, wrote to it, read from it, etc. However, lilo when executed
to write the boot said " Open: /dev/hda2   no such device".
The only thing that seems to have changed is the order in which records in
the boot block in /dev/hda sector 0 appear. After my reshuffling with
FDISK on OS/2, the extended partition ( which physically is the last 750 cylinders
of the disk ) appears first in the list of records, and in Linux fdisk as
/dev/hda1. The physically first partition (BOOT MANAGER) appears as hda4.
Linux seems to understand this fine. I'm not sure about LILO however.

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