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 <shackman97@yahoo.com>
>
> >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
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