Re: Grub multiboot problems

Graham Vincent wrote:
Hello.

Upgrade time and I'm having trouble booting Win98SE in a
Vista/Fedora9/Win98SE triple boot setup.

Old system was a 2 GHz Celeron with IDE drives. Win98SE was on hda1 so I
used partimage to save it to an external USB drive.

New system is an Intel core 2 duo with SATA drives. Vista was
pre-installed on sda1(primary partition). I put Fedora 9 on multiple
partitions within extended partition sda2 and installed grub on the
sda1 master boot record with the rest of it on the /boot partition (sda5).

I restored Win98SE from the image file to primary partition sda3.

From Fedora I can mount and see the Win98SE files so I think the restore
worked OK.

Vista & Fedora boot OK but when I try to get into Win98SE it just hangs at
the grub boot command. Grub.conf below:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,4)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 ro root=UUID=be731d57-5c22-461f-b59a-d0447aec7e83 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 ro root=UUID=be731d57-5c22-461f-b59a-d0447aec7e83 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64.img
title Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot
title Windows98SE
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

I've tried using hide to stop the Vista partition being seen but that made
no difference. If you hide the Fedora partition it won't boot at all
because it can't find grub.conf.

Any suggestions gratefully received - all my wife's genealogy programs on
the Win98 partition and it looks like I'm in trouble :-(

Thanks,

Graham

Hello Graham:

I believe I've heard that the Windows 98SE OS will need to be
installed and not simply restored from a backup. Of course
W98SE won't know what to do with the second processor.

I'm sure others will contribute soon. Are you able to begin a
bootup from your Windows 98SE install CD? Others may wish to
know how much RAM you have installed.

Best wishes to you.

--
1PW

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