Hendrik Schaink wrote:
Hendrick,Which boot loader are you using: GRUB or lilo? If lilo, then (as root) edit /etc/lilo.conf and insert a windows option like this: other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows98 Then execute the command "/sbin/lilo -v" to update the bootloaderIf GRUB then (as root) edit /boot/menu.lst to include a section like this: title Windows98 rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 boot Now you should be able to boot into windows98. Good luck. Hendrik Schaink Nick W wrote:Hi all, I recently put a 120GB drive in a P3-500, and was very happy to see the BIOS correctly set the disk size. When I tried this setup: hda1- 15GB FAT32 for Win98 hda4- extended partition hda5- 1GB swap hda6- Rest of drive ext3 for Suse 9.3 pro everything went well through the windows setup until I tried to reboot, I got a disk I/O error. So I put Suse in, thinking maybe grub/lilo [I tried both] would solve my problem, but no good. Suse boots perfectly, but Win98 gives a disk I/O error. I had thought the Win98 partition had to be smaller than 137GB and a primary partition and all should be fine. Anyone have any insight? Thanks, Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying If windows was already intallled prior to the dual boot setup, then doing a lilo -v won't do any good. During the installtion, when he was formating each partition, he would have been made aware of the FAT/VFAT partition and asked if he wanted included in /etc/fstab--If he chose 'yes', then lilo would 'know' the partition was there and lilo.conf does already reflects that... On the other hand, of the windows partition was a certain size--let's say 10GB; but when he created the partition table assigned a size less than 10GB; he would have in effect trashed hiw windows intallation for sure. In this case, his only oftion would be to re-install windows; then start linux with the emergency CD--you have to tell it to load the linux partition such that: mount root=/dev/hda[1-9] (where 1-9 is the partition number where linux lives). When linux has started, then you can do the lilo -v command and this would indeed give you your dual boot again... --
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