Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> I need to install WinME on a disk with MDK8.2 already installed on it.
>
> With diskdrake I created a 3Gbyte primary partition of type FAT32
> (LBA) on unpartitioned space of hda. The new partition is seen as hda3
> in linux and C: with DOS fdisk.
>
> Then, booting from a WinME rescue disk I install WinME to C: from the
> cdrom. When the system reboots, bios shows the message "invalid I/O
> device - remove disk and press key" or something like that. I am still
> able to boot linux with a linux boot disk.
>
> Any hints? Has anybody ever installed WinXX after linux? I was
> prepared to reinstalling LILO after WinME, but I don't understand why
>
> thanks,
>
> raffaele
>
>
>
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Reinstall LILO. You _might_ get windows to buy a boot from the boot
sector, but if you eer have it check partitions it will choke. It stops
as soon as it sees a non-windows partition.
But before you reinstall LILO make sure you add the win partition and
its boot--(Looks like this)
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
Since the table is read from hda (i.e. the boot sector's pointer table,)
it is unlikely for the behavior of windows to change. It won't boot
unless it is before all non-windows partitions.
I have managed to set several windows systems on a disk, but if I ever
changed one of the partitions to something like ext2, the ones followint
it in partition order would disappear. They'd still be there but could
not boot or use windows fdisk.
That's the sloppy way Microsoft programs, just assume there is nothing
else on the disk, and make it difficult if there is.
Civileme
cat ca
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