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drdroid 11-28-2003 04:34 PM
problem with grub and windows 98se
 
when i attempt to boot windows 98se with grub i get that it's booting grub and it ends with 'GRUB'

this is the grub config file:

title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

homey 11-28-2003 06:59 PM
Has this setup worked before? or have you changed something?
Run the command: /sbin/fdisk -l so we can have a look at it please.

drdroid 11-29-2003 12:47 PM
Code:

            Boot:        Info:
hdb1        *            Win95 Fat32 (LBA)
hdb2                    Linux
hdb3                    Linux Swap
hdb4                    Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
hdb5                    Linux

drdroid 11-29-2003 12:50 PM
I'm not actually sure what that extra win95 partition is for, on hdb4. So what might ya think.

drdroid 11-29-2003 02:50 PM
yeah, its only about 1mb, it couldn't hold much...

drdroid 11-29-2003 03:11 PM
do you need more info?

homey 11-29-2003 04:06 PM
Sorry, didn't see your reply. :(

Anywho, your partition table shows windows and linux on the second hard drive. That is most likely because you incorrectly have that drive set as secondary master with no other drive present.

That may still work if you change the grub.config from...
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

to...

title DOS
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

drdroid 11-29-2003 05:34 PM
i get a message stating that the hardrive doesn't exist

drdroid 11-29-2003 05:36 PM
Quote:
Anywho, your partition table shows windows and linux on the second hard drive. That is most likely because you incorrectly have that drive set as secondary master with no other drive present.
How would I change the configuration to use the master hard drive?

homey 11-29-2003 06:13 PM
Did Windows work before?

Go into the bios and see what the hard drive is configured as.

drdroid 11-30-2003 08:35 AM
Yeah, it did work before. Before I installed linux it was working perfectly.

homey 11-30-2003 09:02 AM
You may get it to work with this setup. The map line tells the bios to treat disk 2 as if it is disk 1

title DOS
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive

drdroid 11-30-2003 09:42 AM
when i use that script, the screen goes black for a second and then goes back to grub.

drdroid 11-30-2003 09:55 AM
do you use irc or aim, we could do this alot faster if we used instant messaging.

homey 11-30-2003 12:10 PM
Well surprise surprise! Yahoo has a messenger for " unix " which actually turned out to be linux. So I installed that on my Redhat box and my id is rctechy


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