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SxN
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 Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:53 am Post subject: Help creating a Win98 partition |
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Hi All,
On my Gentoo machine I have to have Windows for several applications which are not ported in Linux (and I'm not smart enough to port them myself).
I prepared the partitions as follows:
| Code: | # fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6 68 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 69 816 6008310 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 817 4864 32515560 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 * 817 1563 6000246 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda6 1564 4864 26515251 83 Linux
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From another drive I moved a working Windows:
| Code: | # dd of=/dev/hda5 if=/dev/sda1
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I modified grub.conf, so it reads:
| Code: | # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# Which listing to boot as default. 0 is the first, 1 the second etc.
default 0
# How many seconds to wait before the default listing is booted
timeout 5
# splash
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.18-hardened
# Partition where the kernel image (or operating system) is located
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18 root=/dev/hda3 #vga=773 resume=swap:/dev/hda3
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.22-suspend2
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22 root=/dev/hda3 resume=swap:/dev/hda3
title=Windows 98 Second Edition
map (hd0,0) (hd0,4)
map (hd0,4) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
chainloader +1
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And now the moment of truth... when selecting Windows 98, I end up with:
| Code: | Booting 'Windows 98 Second Edition'
map (hd0,0) (hd0,4)
map (hd0,4) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
chainloader +1
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then for a brief moment I see Windows' splash, then:
| Code: | Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)
C>_
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And here I'm stuck. Typing the name of the interpreter doesn't help. There are two copies of command.com, one in C:\, and one in C:\windows.
Although it looks more like a Windows question, maybe there is someone with a similar experience and a solution?
Thanks for your advice,
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Steve Bell
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:24 am Post subject: |
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This might sound a bit silly, but how did you manage to get 2 bootable partitions. Surely the only one that needs the bootable flag is /dev/hda5.
I believe that map is intended to be used for swapping hard disks (i.e. swap /dev/hda with /dev/hdb), not for swapping partitions. I would try the following:
title=Windows 98 Second Edition
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
# makeactive
chainloader +1
The makeactive line might be needed.
I hope this helps |
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Steve Bell
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:27 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, missed a bit.
You might have to add
boot
at the end of the above.
Check section 4.1.2 (Load another boot loader to boot unsupported operating systems) and 4.2.6 (DOS/Windows) of the grub manual. |
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fangorn
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:05 am Post subject: |
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MS DOS and any other MS Bootloader does not boot of logical partitions. They do only boot of active primary partitions with the correct size parameters.
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tarpman
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| SxN wrote: | | If I take out the bootable flag from /dev/hda1, would I be able to boot Gentoo? |
Yes.
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SxN
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Following your suggestions I removed the "bootable" flag from /dev/hda1. The world did not collapsed. I inserted a "makeactive" in grub.conf, this one didn't work. According to the grub manual, "makeactive" works only for primary partitions, so this explains it. Finally, I put a "boot" after "chainloader +1" and it made no difference at all.
If I would have been on a pure Windows box, I would have tried first an "fdisk /mbr" (using, of course, Win's fdisk). But I'm not...
Thanks for ideas, and looking forward for new ones 
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