Re: Help with grub setup for dual-boot system

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Date: 11/09/05

  • Next message: Chaz Ginger: "Re: Help with grub setup for dual-boot system" 
    Date: 9 Nov 2005 11:08:23 -0800

    Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
    > <anoneds@netscape.net> wrote in message
    > news:1131543054.679470.146690@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
    > >I used grub-install after Win98SE overwrote the master boot record
    > > removing grub.
    > > Now, grub will not boot Win98.
    >
    > Ouch. Win98 is no longer supported by M$ at all, so you might want to think
    > about updating that. Leaving details of your post out, did you do anything
    > else at the time, like repartitioning your Windows disk to install Linux as
    > well on it? And when you installed grub, I assume you did a "grub-install
    > /dev/hda" to actually install that little bit of grub to the /dev/hda that
    > you needed? And did you by any chance fail rebooting 3 times in a row, which
    > resets your BIOS to its defaults and may cause other interesting issues if
    > your BIOS needs special settings to boot Win98 successfully?

    No, I did no repartitioning. I'd tried debugging a Lan card and Win98
    deleted ALL the drivers under control-panel - network, and something
    got corrupted, I'm guessing the tcp/ip stack between the apps (IE
    6.0/Firefox) and DUN. Because of this (and other issues), I decided to
    re-install Windows over itself. It nicely overwrote the mbr, removing
    grub, and didn't fix any issues (seeing the files already there, I
    guess).

    So, I booted off of FC 2 in rescue mode, used grub-install to replace
    grub in the mbr. Thought the issue was solved, until I tried booting
    into Windows the next time. I did "grub-install hd0" and "grub-install
    /dev/hda". And my bios didn't reset because of failing to boot. But I'm
    pretty sure when I installed Windows on this disk a couple years back
    (I had a hard drive failure requiring a reformat) I chose large disk
    support. When I booted off of the Windows CD, it asked if I wanted to
    enable that. So, I chose not too (not wanting to really screw things up
    further).

    Thought of booting up and using "sys c:" as an earlier poster to this
    group used, a little afraid I'd wind up with nothing.

    And now I get the "ERROR 18" which appears to tell me that my "/boot"
    has to be within the first section of the drive, which it most
    certainly is.

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