Hi,

I was having Win98 and Fedora 5 working well. Today I formatted HDA1 and installed Win98 fresh on the same drive. And then I got only Win98 booting (no Grub menu). Then using Fedora Rescue disk, I installed the Grub loader using the command "grub-install /dev/hda". Since then I got the Grub bootloader menu and able to boot Linux well. But Win98 does not boot, if I choose Win98, I get again the Grub bootloader menu freshly (countdown starting).

My disk geomentry structure.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5931 2989003+ b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2 5945 13994 4056412+ 5 Extended
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda3 13994 14201 104422+ 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda4 14201 29804 7863817+ 8e Linux LVM
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda5 5945 13994 4056381 b W95 FAT32


/boot/grub/grub.conf
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 acpi=off
options ide-cd ignore=hdb
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
title Windows 98
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1


Somebody help me to resolve this problem.
Advance thanks for the help.
Sakitram

I don't have much experience with grub and windows partitions, but does it help if it's changed to:

title Windows 98
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

The menu.lst entry should not have changed with what was done....Any chance that Windows got onto hda5 and not hda1?

hey i have experienced the same problem. but the problem started in a different manner. xp didnot boot at all.

makeactive option didnot help.

i just took the back up n reinstalled the oses afresh. but i'm intersted in knowing wht went wrong and how to fix it.

Thanks for the reply.

pixellany:
I find that newly installed Win98 is found in /dev/hda1.


saivinob:
I think not needed so, because two time already I passed situation like this before and got everything fine. But the only question is how did I overcome, because I could not remember the steps.

So I believe some experts would help me here.