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need help - tell me what i am Missing ......Boot Loader not working?
i have 3 hard drives - all individually boot fine .
drive1 = has redhat9 installed
drive2 = has Mandrake installed
drive3 = has win98 installed
When i put them all together on the same system , Redhat is
Primary hda , Mandrake is hdc ,Win98 hdd and Redhat9 Boots fine -Runs Great !
i can Mount all DRives and access anyone .
i can run the Boot Loader update from
my Redhat9 installation Dics and finish .
When i Re-Boot , the New Boot Loader displays
all three systems on the boot -up menu .
select = Redhat9 .......... Boots up Fine !
select = mandrake....... ERRORS OUT ! won't boot
select = win98 .............Errors OUT ! won't boot
error displayed -
Booting 'Mandrake'
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
Error 13 : Invalid or unsupported executable format
What did i foget or Miss to get the new BootLoader working?
Mandrake dics drive was formatted with the Mandrake install disc ?
You will have to edit your grub.conf file. Located somewhere below /boot directory
In this file you will have to edit the mandrake section to reflect the correct drive to find mandrake.
Your error output says that Grub tries to look for Mandrake on /dev/hdb (rootnoverify(hd1,0))
The line with that command in grub.conf would have to be set to rootnoverify(hd2,0)
If you don't get it working please post the content of your grub.conf file (could also be named menu.lst)
so i SCrapped RedHats9 Crappie Boot Loader .
What a Waist of time ...... for just a Boot Loader .
i went Back to an Old outside source boot Loader (XOSL)
which i still had on the Win98 hard Drive .......
This is an OUTSTanding Boot Loader .... Works first
time every time.
Now i have everything working GREAT !
can Boot HardDisc1 = REdHat9
HardDisc2 = Mandrake 10.0
HardDisc3 = Win98
thanks for your Time .........this is a Great Forum
Oh, I missed that you had windows 98.
Windows 98 requires to be the first primary partition on the first hard disk, which isnät the case in your setup, so you will have to add some options to hide the other hard disks and partitions so that win98 are fooled.
This is probably done automatically with XOSL.
Another great boot loader to try is: http://btmgr.webframe.org/
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