Hi
I just installed RH 6.0 and I have big problems. The install itself went OK.
I installed linux as a second operating system with Win98 as follows
/dev/hda1 = FAT16 (win 98)
/dev/hda2 = Linux Native
/dev/hda3 = Linux Swap
/dev/hdb1 = fat 16
/dev/hdb2 = Linux Native
When I completed the install & rebooted. My machine booted staight to Win98
without giving me a LILO prompt. I rebooted with a boot disk and from in
linux, mucked around with "lilo.conf". As a result, I could boot to linux but
not win98
I mucked around some more, but eventually got tired of it and reinstalled
RH6.0 I still can't boot to win98 and it doesn't look good. I get the LILO
prompt, but when I choose "dos" I get the message "Loading dos" for about 5
seconds and the the LILO prompt again. Following are the particulars
>From DOS fdisk:
C: UNKNOWN SYSTEM
A LINUX
LINUX
I tried fdisk /mbr & got no result
I tried booting from a win98 boot disk and when I try to get a directory from
C: I get a "invalid media type" error
Scandisk says it cannot examine drive C
from Linux FDISK
hda1 1-520 6 FAT16
hda2 521-825 * 83 LINUX
hda3 826-851 82 LINUX SWAP
I tried toggling the bootable flag for hda1 but got a "invalid partition
table" error & had to reboot from floppy
next I tried to mount the dos partition from linux using the following
command (I include this because I might be doing it wrong):
mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc
this generates the following errors
VFS: Can't find a validMSDOS filesystem on dev 03:01
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1 or too
many mounted file systems
For the sake of completeness, here is my LILO.CONF file:
boot=/dev/hda1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux
root=dev/hda2
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
I did a backup before installing RH. so If I lost the win98 data, its not a
big disaster (although I'd prefer not to have to go that far). Does anyone
have a clue on how to restore my windows partition? Or, if that's not
possible, how to put windows back on & make it a boot option, etc
Thanks
Chuck Rouse
