On Tuesday 06 July 2004 02:00, you wrote: > Nothing happens because xp wont let you boot into 98, try a win98 bootdisk. > I had this problem the installed a third party boot loader and reinstalled > both versions of win. Didnt have to reinstall Linux though. > From: Stephen Wiebelhaus > > >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >Subject: multi boot > >Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:08:51 -0700 (PDT) > > > >I am trying to get a 3 boot system to work. I started > >out with Win98. Then I added Suse Linux. The dual boot > >worked fine, with Win98 on hda1 and linux on hda3. > >Then I added WinXP. Ok, I made a few partition changes > >at the same time. The primary drive became secondary, > >so that Win98 is on hdb1. I installed WinXP on the new > >harddrive, on hda1. It works fine. So I installed > >Suse9, on hda2. That works fine, I can boot WinXP or > >Suse. > >When I try to boot Win98 is when nothing happens. Grub > >comes up, I request Win98, then the screen goes black, > >except for a flashing cursor in the top left. So I > >swapped the master and slave drive settings, so I can > >boot Win98 directly, it won't boot that way anymore. > >Looks like when I installed WinXp or Suse on the > >master drive, it blewup the MBR on the slave drive. > >I used the Win98 rescue disk, and tried to restore > >the boot wth that, but it didn't work. Anyone know how > >I can restore the MBR or partition boot record for > >hdb1, so I can boot Win98 again? > > First of all, you won't get Windows 98 to boot from a secondary drive, the critter is too dumb to do that. It must be on the first drive. Now Windows XP is supposed to be more NT-like, so it may be able to boot that from hdb1. I'm not sure why your rescue disk didn't work. What I've done in the past is use a win 98 boot floppy - it has to have tools installed on it, specifically fdisk. The command fdisk /mbr is supposed to restore the master boot record. Then at that point you'll have to reconfigure your grub or lilo so it knows where everything is. Good luck! Vaughn > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > >http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > >--------------------------------------------------- > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > _________________________________________________________________ > Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfeeŽ > Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss