According to Roderick W.Smith's "The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook": Both DOS and Windows9x must boot from a primary partition on the first physical disk or from a floppy disk.....although the most basic components of DOS and Windows9x must boot from C: , it is possible to install the bulk of both OSs on other partitions.
Regards,Arnout Alec schrieb: > Hi > > I'm wondering if anyone can help me with the following problem: > > I have 2 HDs, and I just had Win98 installed on the slave HD. I had to > physically disconnect the master HD to do it, because I was using the CDs > that originally came with the computer and I didn't want them to overwrite my > Linux isntallation. > > Anyways, I configured lilo to point to the Windows partition like this: > ///////////////////// > other=/dev/hdd1 > label=Windows > table=/dev/hdd > //////////////////// > ran lilo. No errors. > But when I try to boot into Windows, it says "Loading Windows" and gets stuck. > The only way I can boot into Windows is by again physically disconnecting the > master HD. What is going on? Perhaps it is worth mentioning that one of the > partions on the master HD is FAT32 with no Windows on it. Could it be that > the Windows boot loader gets confused somehow? > > Thanks. Any insights are greatly appreciated. > > Alec > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
