Re: booting win 98 on hda5

[Felix Miata]

Terry Milnes wrote:
 
> I have a laptop that had win2000 installed to the drive, I need to add
> win 98 without dumping the 2000 install and starting over so I thought I
> would use grub.
 
> Consequently I partitioned the drive (only has one) with partition
> magic, set up a fat 32 as the second partition, it became hda5 for some
> reason.  Added the linux to hda6 > hda10.
 
> I can boot into win 2000 no problem, (hda1) and linux (hda6), but
> whenever I try win 98 I get various errors, various because I have
> altered the grub.conf a million ways....<g>
 
> So now I am begining to wonder if its even possible, all references I
> have seen in the docs, faq google etc seem to imply the partition needs
> to be a primary opposed to a logical, is this correct?

W98 can only boot from hda[1-4]. Use Partition Magic again, and convert
the (logical) hda5 FAT32 to (primary) hda2. 

This will cause the current hda6 and above to become hda5 and above. If
you shrink the converted W98 primary down one cylinder in size, you can
then create a "dummy" logical partition that will push hda5 and above
back to hda6 and above, so that you can still boot Linux as currently
configured. Otherwise, you'd need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and
/etc/fstab from a rescue boot.
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