Re: booting win 98 on hda5

[Terry Milnes]

Yup, this worked great thanks again for the pointing me in the right 
direction Felix....

Terry Milnes wrote:
> > 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?
>
>  >
>
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> Brilliant! 'cept it didn't work.....<g>  I shifted the hda5 to a primary 
> partition shrunk it and added the dummy logical, however it made the 
> machine unbootable.  (Grub Error 17).  So I booted with the linux 
> floppy, it can't find the root partition, I guessed I made a mistake and 
> even tried /hda5, (init) that didn't work...
>
> So now I have removed the grub, and fixed the mbr, linux fdisk and 
> partition magic think the partitions are trashed.  I used the win2000 
> disk manager to remove all partitions except for hda1 and the new hda2. 
>  And have now created the new logical partitions for linux, with 
> partition magic, so I am about to install linux again and retry this 
> whole thing.
>
> Hopefully after all of this it will work....
>
> Thanks Felix for the tip...
> Terry