I have been told before that Windows has to be on the primary hard drive on
the 1st controller....
Riyad Kalla
General Partner, Multimedia & Design
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http://www.transitivesys.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Boulet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 11:19 PM
Subject: [expert] Problems booting win98 after upgrade
> I upgraded to Mandrake 7.0 and am having problems booting into windows 98.
> I'm getting the message: Invalid system disk. Replace the disk, then hit
any
> key.
>
> I have two disks: /dev/hda and /dev/hdb.
>
> root is hda1, and the win98 partition is on hdb1.
>
> My lilo.conf is:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> vga=normal
> prompt
> timeout=50
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14
> label=linux-2.2.14
> root=/dev/hda1
> append="mem=256M"
> read-only
>
> other=/dev/hdb1
> label=win98
> table=/dev/hda
>
> My /etc/fstab is:
>
> /dev/hdb1 /win98 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda6 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda7 swap_upgrade swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda8 swap_upgrade swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdb6 /mnt/disk ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide
0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0
0
>
> I'd appreciate any help.
>
> -- Stephen
>
