On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i have Debian Woody 3.0 running along Windows 98 en XP. > I had installed Win98 first, then woody. Now i installed XP and XP > detected Win98, made a menu to boot XP and Win98 and then overwrote > the MBR which was expected. > No problem since i had made a boot disk in woody so i went back into > linux, changed lilo.conf and ran lilo. > My system is as follows: > primary hd: > - 1 primary partition with Win98 (fat32) > - 1 extended partition that contains > - 1 extra partition (fat32) > - 4 linux exf2 partition > > secondary hd (on same id channel) > - 1 primary partition with WinXP (fat 32) > - 1 extended partition that contains > - 1 extra parition (fat32) > - half of the space of the hd is unassigned. this is needed to make > > a test debian linux in the near future :-) > > I put these lines in my lilo.conf > other=/dev/hda1 > label="Win98" > other=/dev/hdb1 > label="WinXp" > > I expected to be able to boot both win os's but it didn't work. When i > chose > WinXp it said that that partition wasn't bootable. When i choose Win98, > and this is the weird thing, i got the dual boot loader from WinXP that > showed a list of XP and Win98 that could be booted. > I probably could have avoided it by hiding my Win98 disk so that XP > wouldn't > touch the hda but install it's boot into hdb. ( is there a free tool > that allows > to hide a disk/parition) > > Anyway not that bad really as i can still boot all my os's and i > couldn't care > less if XP disappears since it was a new install. > Is there anyway i could solve this so i can all boot them from nice > 'labels' in > lilo? I wouldn't mind losing XP but i don't want to lose Debian and > Win98 > > Thanks for any advice >
It seems that WinXP modified the boot sectors of Win98 and they use a unified group of boot sectors. You can hardly restore the boot sectors for Win98 in hda1 and for WinXP in hdb1. Perhaps it's possible to configure the WinXP/98 boot loader to boot Win98 directly without interruption. I think there is a config file somewhere. Then reinstall WinXP and tell it not to mess up with Win98. After that you will get a nice lilo menu. Good luck, Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
