At 2004-07-15T12:11:24+1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> Setup before today:
> 1. 40G hard drive partitioned so /dev/hda1 is fat with w98, balance of
> disk is various linux partitions. Booting is via grub to either w98 or
> gentoo linux.
> Changes today:
> 2. added a new hard drive as /dev/hdb. Allowed the W2K windows
> installer to format it as ntfs. Allowed windows installation to
> proceed to install on that drive (E:\ after C:\ (w98) and D:\ (cdrom).
> I wasn't watching most of the time but it eventually said it was
> completed and would reboot.
I'm assuming that prior to the installation, your configuration was:
- MBR of first disk contains GRUB stage 1
- Boot sector of first partion (Win98) contains DOS/Win98 boot sector
- Your active partition was <something> (didn't matter)
(it's also possible that GRUB stage 1 was installed in the boot sector
of one of your Linux partitions, the MBR was a(nother) DOS/Win98 boot
sector, and your Linux partition (which held the GRUB stage 1 boot
sector) was active)
I can't say for sure what the problem is until I know which of the two
possible configurations described above you were using.
Some notes:
NT needs to boot off of the first primary partition. In your case, this
is the Win98 FAT partition. The NT installer has replaced the Win98
bootsector with the first stage of the NT bootsector.
Your Win98 partition should have the following new files in the root:
- boot.ini
- NTDETECT.COM
- ntldr
You might need to review the contents of the boot.ini to make sure the
ARC path is correct, though the installer probably has it right. This
potential problem won't come into play until you're getting as far as
the NT loader.
I'm also not sure what you're trying to achieve with the 'makeactive'
statement in your GRUB config--it's almost definitely wrong.
Since you don't have a thorough understanding of how x86 booting works,
it may be easiest (though a little heavy handed) to fix your problem by
doing the following:
- Create a bootable GRUB floppy (or check that you have a Linux rescue
CD with GRUB on it)
- Boot Win2k in rescue mode, do a 'fdisk /mbr'
- Make sure your Win98 partition is active
- While in Win2k rescue mode, 'repair' your installation (this will
rewrite the NT loader stuff)
- Reboot--you should boot into the menu-drive NT loader, with options
for Win2k and Win98.
- Use your GRUB rescue image to get GRUB reinstalled either into the
MBR if it was before--if it wasn't, just make the Linux partition
active and you should be ready to go.
Cheers,
-mjg
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