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In <43qq6o$42h@info.curtin.edu.au>, John Krivitsky <jk@cs.curtin.edu.au> writes:
>I would like to set up partitions as follows:
>
>	C:	DOS
>	D:	OS/2
>		Linux
>		Linux Swap
>		Boot Manager
>
>The boot manager should be able to boot into any of the three OSs. I've
>followed
>the instructions and created these partitions under OS/2. I made DOS a primary,
>OS/2 and Linux both Extended Logical.
>
>The problem is that when I boot Linux and run FDISK, I can only see three
>partitions: DOS (>32M), OS/2 Boot Manager and `Extended'. It seems to have
>lumped OS/2 and both the Linux partitions into one chunk, and I can't change
>the individual Linux partition to Linux Native.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>Please reply by e-mail to:
>
>		jk@cs.curtin.edu.au
>
>Thank you for your help.

I had the same problem with a similar setup. In my case I was attempting to
install Linux from a CDROM that had a kernel version of 1.2.2. A little checking
in Linux news groups confirmed that there were some problems with logical
partitions in early kernel versions. I got 'boot' and 'root' disks from a Linux
ftp site that had kernel version 1.2.8, and I was able to see all partitions
correctly. I have since bought the Slackware 2.3 Linux CDROM (dated July 1995)
which has kernel 1.2.8