cant boot into win98 with grub

[missyvortex]

hi

am using grub and win98 is definetly set to the right partition. have tried adding makeactive, boot, debug and rootnoverify commands to the windows 98 part but not sure what order should be in

my windows 98 part of grub.conf looks like this

title=Win98
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

i had win98 installed before linux so its the first 50gb of hdd, with linux partition taking up the rest of drive. i can mount the partition fine from gentoo and i booted into win98 fine after partitioning the linux swap etc (but before installing gentoo).

i really want to be able to sort this problem out as reinstalling it is just as problematic - either messing up the bootrecord or having to install it on my bootable usb hdd (but then i also wish to be able use my 50gb eventually anyway and wont be using them for linux as i don't have lots of stuff for linux.- already have 30gigs free for gentoo usage)

so does anyone have any suggestions for how i can get win98 to boot, given that it is still there and it just seems grub cant boot it for some unknown reason to me.

[psyqil]

My suggestion would be the following entry:

[missyvortex]

one time i got it to start booting up but gave error 13 shortly after starting to. never got to win98 boot screen but atleast didn't loopback to grub continuously as it does now. can't remember combination though. have tried loads.

but i will still try that when i reboot.

[missyvortex]

one time i got it to start booting up but gave error 13 shortly after starting to. never got to win98 boot screen but atleast didn't loopback to grub continuously as it does now. can't remember combination though. have tried loads.

but i will still try that when i reboot.

[missyvortex]

ok

i tried your above suggestion and nothing happened.
also tried adding boot to the end and then debug to the end. so have done atleast 4 different combinations that are supposed to have worked but don't.

i didn't get any errors except 27 which was when i forgot to add a space in between rootnoverify and (hd0,0)

[psyqil]

Hm, seems like a borked bootloader to me...perhaps try a boot disk with s/th like xfdisk to see if you manage to start your windows without grub...I haven't had these problems in the last years, but I remember a 'sys' command in windows, though I don't know if it was for floppies only...

[missyvortex]

hi

so is there anyway i can reinstall grub, in the hope it might work ok?
or change to LILO, without losing current gentoo install?

also one prob i have is no floppy drive - so cant use win98 bootdisk unless its possible to use the cd as one.

[psyqil]

[missyvortex]

yeah, if i login as root its i can. but which files do i need to copy over?

[psyqil]

Those of xfdisk, so you can look at your partition table, mark the win-partition active and bootable and see if it will start without grub, if it won't, sys c: may help...