In a message dated 6/14/99 11:37:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>
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
