When I boot with the Win/DOS startup disk, it hangs after executing
autoexec.bat - I get no prompt at all.
If I boot using GRUB and select Windows, it runs all the way through
autoexec then hangs - I even added "echo 'you made it this far'" at the
end. That string appears, then it hangs. I then put "win" as the last
line, and it still hangs.
When I boot using my Mandrake LILO floppy, it comes up fine.
Jay
Ed Tharp wrote:
>
> one other thing if the earlier trick did not work, have you tried , from
> booting with the win-dos diskette, at a dos prompt type "sys c:" to make C; a
> system bootable disk?
>
> On Sat, 19 May 2001, you wrote:
> > D'oh!
> >
> > Yes, that was a typo in the mail. The menu.lst file does say 'root'.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jay
> >
> > Ed Tharp wrote:
> > > bud you are going to get all sorts of e-mail on this...
> > >
> > > the only difference in my menu.lst is that where yours says "boot" , mine
> > > says "root' , was that a typo in the e-mail? that and my floppy does not
> > > say "makeactive" i don't know y.
> > >
> > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, you wrote:
> > > > OK, I got LILO working, then switched over to GRUB. Both of them boot
> > > > Linux-Mandrake like a charm, but ... there's always gotta be a but ...
> > > > WinDoze stops loading after running its startup script (i.e.
> > > > autoexec.bat), and I can't boot from the floppy at all. I can access
> > > > the data on the WinDoze disks from Linux, but would really like to boot
> > > > it properly when I need to. I know that this is not a DOS forum, but I
> > > > just thought I'd mention that all of the DOS init files are still
> > > > there, intact.
> > > >
> > > > What I did to get to this point was, using Linux tools exclusively:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Shrink hde (extended partition on hd0) using diskdrake
> > > > 2. Create a small partition (about 200MB) using the newly freed space
> > > > 3. Make a backup of the contents of /boot, including subdirectories
> > > > 4. Delete /boot (remember, I backed this up already)
> > > > 5. Format the new partition as Linux native, ext2 filesystem
> > > > 6. Give the new partition the mount point /boot
> > > > 7. Restore the contents of the old /boot to the new /boot
> > > > 8. Run the "Tools for booting" applet in DrakConf to update the GRUB
> > > > files
> > > > 9. Verify the contents of the GRUB and LILO bootup files
> > > > 10. Run LILO; reboot; it worked
> > > > 11. Run GRUB's install.sh; reboot; it worked
> > > >
> > > > With reboots as required during the above process. Diskdrake is kind
> > > > enough to tell you when you need to reboot before moving on.
> > > >
> > > > Happy day, until I tried to boot WinDoze, first from GRUB then from the
> > > > floppy.
> > > >
> > > > Here's the M$ entries I put in GRUB's menu.lst:
> > > >
> > > > title Windows
> > > > boot (hd0,0)
> > > > makeactive
> > > > chainloader +1
> > > >
> > > > title Floppy
> > > > boot (fd0)
> > > > makeactive
> > > > chainloader +1
> > > >
> > > > WinDoze is on hda1 (yes, I'm sure) which should, if I'm not mistaken,
> > > > translate to (hd0,0). And I know for certain that (fd0) is my floppy.
> > > >
> > > > When I try to boot from the floppy, I get a Device Error - it says that
> > > > fd0 is a bad device. Mind you, this is with my WinDoze boot floppy; I
> > > > haven't tried the Mandrake boot floppy yet, but it worked this morning.
> > > >
> > > > I just mounted my Mandrake boot floppy (fs=ext2) and can see the
> > > > contents. Then I did a umount and put in the WinDoze floppy (fs=vfat),
> > > > mounted that and can see its contents as well. So, neither the drive
> > > > nor the floppies are bad.
> > > >
> > > > I'll be researching this further, just thought I'd let you know where I
> > > > am.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Jay
> > > >
> > > > Ed Tharp wrote:
> > > > > hey, as I think about this... the answer may be to point the boot
> > > > > partition to where ever / is if you did not create a /boot partition,
> > > > > that should point to lilo. then run lilo as an executable before
> > > > > rebooting. I think what the question SHOULD be is "where is lilo" not
> > > > > "where is the master boot record".
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 17 May 2001, you wrote:
> > > > > > Hey, that's cool - I thought that the /boot partition had to be the
> > > > > > first one on the disk. That also explains the very small "mystery
> > > > > > partition" that was lingering on hda when I did the complete fdisk
> > > > > > and repartioning.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > When I say hda is the boot drive, that would be hda1.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've been up for about 20 hours now, so I think I'll wait until the
> > > > > > morning before playing with my partitions.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > A television may insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in
> > > > > like a computer
> > >
> > > --
> > > A television may insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a
> > > computer
>
> --
> A television may insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a
> computer
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