Re: Grub multiboot problems

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:40:39 +1200, 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.

<snip>

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

Thanks,

Graham

I can't vouch for what W98 will do with your new SATA based system. I
installed W95, W98 for others (to help recover from virus infestations),
but I never have run it myself. On the "NT" branch of MS OS's, there is
some MS documentation describing how to upgrade your motherboard. Perhaps,
there is similar documentation for upgrading hardware on W98. I am pretty
sure MS has discontinued support for that OS. I wouldn't hold out a lot of
hope that it will ever boot from a partition number that is different from
the one where it was installed.

But because you have already proceeded past that point, maybe the question
to ask is whether you can get by with just the _files_ on the
partition. For example, can you could reinstall whatever genealogy
program she is using and then import the old data?

If that doesn't work, then do you still have the old system? If so, that
could become her dedicated geneology workstation (I guess).

--
Douglas Mayne
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