Hello:
Before you get to linux or DOS, what does your BIOS report
about your hard drive(s)?
Is your BIOS boot sequence A,C,... ?
> "but I'm presently swapping the hard drives--Windows95 on the small one, and"
Are you physically swapping the drives? If yes, you must change
your BIOS hard drive parameters!
Chuck
Richard Spencer wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I had asked list-members for help a while ago, regarding
> why I may have had difficulties setting up a new 10 Gb
> hard drive into a dual-boot configuration, with RedHat 6.0
> and Windows95. I actually wasn't able to even boot a DOS
> floppy disk, after using Linux fdisk--or DOS FDISK-- to
> create a FAT16 partition.
>
> I remember responses guessing that there was something wrong
> with my floppy disk drive or the DOS boot disk.
>
> Recently, while making the old, smaller hard drive Windoze-only,
> I noted that I AM able to boot from a DOS diskette; I went ahead
> with the whole windoze install.
>
> So, to reiterate symptoms:
>
> If my hda1 is type 6 (FAT16) because I created it with fdisk,
> the DOS boot-disk won't boot; there is only some floppy drive
> activity, and then some hard drive activity, and then nothing.
>
> If I delete hda1, I can boot with my DOS boot-disk, and use DOS's
> FDISK utility to create the partition instead. However, at this
> point, I can't re-boot using the DOS boot-disk, to format the
> new partition. Also, if I return to Linux fdisk, I notice the
> partition which DOS FDISK created doesn't "end on a correct
> cylinder" or something to that effect; forgive me for
> not making a note of the error message!
>
> So I wonder, is this problem arising because my new hard disk has
> a different geometry? The old disk has 1575 cylinders, whereas the new
> one has 19485 cylinders.
>
> I had intended to create a dual-boot configuration on the larger hard drive,
> but I'm presently swapping the hard drives--Windows95 on the small one, and
> RedHat 6.0 kernel 2.2.16 on the other. This works for the time being,
> but I'd still prefer to have a dual-boot set-up on the larger hard drive.
>
> btw, I run RedHat 6.0 and kernel 2.2.16, on the new hard drive, that is.
> --
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>
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