until last spring. When this disk problem popped up both times I had mandrake in an ext3 partition. I have suse now and will
reinstall mandrake both in reiserfs partitions. If I can get legal windows 98SE CD or between the ones I have already
form a workable one using linux utilities I will reinstall windows in a third partion. I have a scrambled windows install in hda1
now.
Jim K
T. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:08:19PM -0700, Jim K wrote:
I spent the last week trying to set-up my machine as a dual boot with windows and linux. I have used up another windows 98SE
CD . I was wondering has anybody else had problems with windows 98 or ME on a disk with EXT3 partition on it? especially
messed up superblocks, magic numbers( I think Magic numbers is right I am doing that one from memory,) or FAT 32 tables?
I know windows puts in a back up FAT that could get out of sync( I found this out about 1999, I am not sure this is
the problem this time.) when the windows partition is accessed by a linux programs( this should be a function of the kernel, right?).
Jim K,
Usual way of doing this:
Use Linux to partition the disk. Make the first partiton (hda1) your Windows partition. Create a small (10-20 meg) partition for hda2, then create a big extended partiton to contain what other divisions you'd like, your swap, etc.
Install Windows, but don't let it screw with any partitions other than the first one.
Install Linux with /dev/hda2 as /boot.
Reason for this:
1. Windows MBR can be used to boot either OS if lilo is installed to /dev/hda2 instead of /dev/hda 2. lilo can be used to boot either OS if installed on /dev/hda 3. Windows has been known to slightly bork Linux installations, other than just the bootloader (which is fixable) if you install Linux first. Don't attribute malice to this, it's more like a Windows installer bug. 4. Doing it this way exposes you to the least amount of DOS partition table brain damage later on.
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