On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:41, frank nelson wrote: > --- JB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I'll do the simplest thing as another > > suggested and just do a couple > > things with the BIOS whenever I need to boot into > > windoze. > > Time to start over. You have not told us how much > memory you have in your box. Win98 can't see more than > 768 MB. If you have more than that, Win98 will report > "Not enough memory" which just means it's totally > confused.
Only 512MB, so should be okay. > Next, if the memory is OK, you should be able to > install Win98 directly to the second drive, jumpered > as it is. If you worry about the SUSE drive, the most > you need to do is unplug the 4 pin Molex, which will > make the SUSE drive invisible to the system. Then just > insert the Win98 CD, and do a normal installation. > > After the Win98 installation is complete, and you've > checked it's ability to boot, turn off the computer, > and re-plug the Molex on the SUSE drive. When you > boot, you'll get the grub boot screen with SUSE as the > only boot choice. Boot to SUSE, and as root, add the > following to /boot/grub/menu.lst. You can copy/paste > it from here. > > title Windows 98 > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > map (hd1) (hd0) > map (hd0) (hd1) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > Save the file, and reboot. Your grub menu will now > give you a choice between SUSE and Win98. Select > windows, and it will boot, without having to mess > about in your BIOS. Now *this* sounds easier even than doing the bios thing. Thanks Frank! I'll let everyone know how it turns out. JB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
