Hey Cameron, I'm not sure if this will help, and maybe someone else can offer other ideas...
I would install the 160gb drive as master(hda) and the 20gb slave(hdb) and reinstall linux on hda (with the grub bootloader on it) and see if it will find your win98 on hdb as-is. If I'm thinking right, The grub bootloader that was put on your win98 hdd will not allow you to boot win98 anymore (Not sure on this). My idea is that when grub bootloader is being installed on the 160gb(hda)drive it "should" see your win98 drive partition as hdb1, and thus bypassing the mbr(or hdb) of your win98 drive. This is one way of installing Linux without doing any more changes to the 20gb drive. Please check with the other gurus in here first though before trying this out. I would try this myself, but I am not too worried about blowing away win98...lol Cheers --mike On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 14:36, CAMERON NIKITIUK wrote: > Hi All, > > I tried to post this earlier but I don't know if it went through or not, so forgive > me if this double-posts. > > In keeping with my trend of publishing my failures with Linux, I have another one to > post. Seems I end up learning more by screwing up. If thats the case with > everything, I should be the smartest m,an in the world by now! ;-) > > I purchased a new 160GB hard drive and finally got it installed last night. It is > jumpered as a slave with a 20GB drive (Windows 2000) set as master. I finally > decided to install Suse 9.0 Pro from the disks Katrina burnt for me (tanx K). All > went well for the installation as far as setting my parameters and slecting my > packages and stuff and this morning I got to actaully installing it. It had just > finished installing the appropriate information from Disk 1 and I would imagine it > rebooted (had to go potty), because when Ic ame back the only thing on my screen was > the follwoing error: > > GRUB HARD DISK ERROR > > I did try to reboot from the CD and tried the "boot from hard disk: selection (same > error) and tried the "recsue system", but seeing as I had not set a root password > and not sure what to do next I just left powered off the machine. I am away from > home this weekend and was just getting ready to leave as I did this, so no time to > screw around. > > I did a little googleing and from what I have seen, the BIOS may not recognize the > geometry on the hard disk and GRUB takes it's information from there to set up the > boot loading. The suggestions I have come across include booting off a win98 boot > disk (person had a dual bot with 98) and entering "fdisk /mbr" at the command > prompt. I have been cautioned that this can pooch your system and want to be slow > and deliberate as I deal with this problem. > > Seeing as it is a fresh install I don't mind blowing away the install (on hdb) and > doing it again if I need to, but I want to maintain the integrity of the existing > windows hard disk (hda) seeinga s that is my current working environment. I am just > wondering if rebooting from a win98 disk is the smart thing to to do or should I > just try reinstalling suse again from the CD. If I remember my bootloader > parameters correctly I may have put GRUB on hda. Not SUre if that is the right > thing to do or not? > > ANy suggestions are welcome as are offers to come over and fix the problem for me > <hehehe ;-)>are greatly appreciated!!! > > Cameron > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
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