I've just installed redhat9 to make a dual booting system (with win98)
and am having problems with grub.
(Note: my friend is sick of windows 98 virus++ and I am weaning her onto
linux so I really want to get this working for her!)

The setup: I had an existing windows 98 system, that had one hard disk
(master on ide0). I added another disk to the system, putting the new
disk as master on ide0, and the win98 disk as the slave on ide0. Then I
installed redhat 9 (shrike) from the three CD set.

The problem: well, setup went fine, I rebooted, and sure enough, grub
comes up, offering windows 98 or RedHat Linux. Selecting RedHat worked
fine, but selecting Windows 98 caused grub to hang and not boot windows
98. I searched on the internet for problems like this, and found a post
of someone advising you map hd0 to hd1 and vice versa to fix the problem
in this situation. So, I edited the windows98 section of my grub.conf to
be as follows:

title Windows 98
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1)
chainloader +1

...which appears to be the way to do it. (I didn't edit the RedHat
section, I left it as is).
Now when I boot up, grub drops through to the grub command line, without
showing a menu, which I believe is what happens when the config is wrong
or erroneous. Can anyone advise if indeed this means my grub.conf is
bogus, and how to fix it?
(Funnily enough, if I type the windows98 rules at the grub command line
as they appear above, and then type 'boot', windows 98 boots just fine!)

My full grub.conf reads as follows:

#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.40.20-8)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title Windows 98
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1)
chainloader +1


all help greatly appreciated!

alex

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Alex Hunsley wrote:

> all help greatly appreciated!

.... can you give us the output of:
# fdisk -l /dev/hd*
..
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:58:45 +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:

> I've just installed redhat9 to make a dual booting system (with win98)
> and am having problems with grub.
> (Note: my friend is sick of windows 98 virus++ and I am weaning her onto
> linux so I really want to get this working for her!)
>
> <snip>
>
> title Windows 98
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
>
> all help greatly appreciated!
>
> alex
>
Assuming your slave drive has only one partition...

Try the syntax (as modified above). This chainloads to the partition's
BPB loader code (not the MBR on the slave drive.)

--Douglas Mayne

Douglas Mayne wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:58:45 +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:
>
>
>>I've just installed redhat9 to make a dual booting system (with win98)
>>and am having problems with grub.
>>(Note: my friend is sick of windows 98 virus++ and I am weaning her onto
>>linux so I really want to get this working for her!)
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>title Windows 98
>> map (hd0) (hd1)
>> map (hd1) (hd0)
>
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> makeactive
>
>> chainloader +1
>>
>>
>>all help greatly appreciated!
>>
>>alex
>>
>
> Assuming your slave drive has only one partition...

Yes, I think it does.
>
> Try the syntax (as modified above). This chainloads to the partition's
> BPB loader code (not the MBR on the slave drive.)

I've tried your amendment and I get the same result - grub comes up in
command line mode, no menu.

thanks,
alex

Douglas Mayne wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:58:45 +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:
>
>
>>I've just installed redhat9 to make a dual booting system (with win98)
>>and am having problems with grub.
>>(Note: my friend is sick of windows 98 virus++ and I am weaning her onto
>>linux so I really want to get this working for her!)
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>title Windows 98
>> map (hd0) (hd1)
>> map (hd1) (hd0)
>
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> makeactive
>
>> chainloader +1
>>
>>
>>all help greatly appreciated!
>>
>>alex
>>
>
> Assuming your slave drive has only one partition...
>
> Try the syntax (as modified above). This chainloads to the partition's
> BPB loader code (not the MBR on the slave drive.)
>
> --Douglas Mayne

Problem now solved... the problem is detailed here:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug.../msg00093.html

basically, booting 98 causes (hd0,0) partition to be set to partition
type 0x93, I have set it back now with a parttype command in menu.lst.

thanks all who answered,
alex

Alex Hunsley wrote:

> basically, booting 98 causes (hd0,0) partition to be set to partition
> type 0x93, I have set it back now with a parttype command in menu.lst.

.... the request for the 'fdisk -l /dev/hd*' would have
revealed this a long time ago )
..
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mjt wrote:
> Alex Hunsley wrote:
>
>
>>basically, booting 98 causes (hd0,0) partition to be set to partition
>>type 0x93, I have set it back now with a parttype command in menu.lst.
>
>
> ... the request for the 'fdisk -l /dev/hd*' would have
> revealed this a long time ago )
> .

Uh? I posted that! D'oh... where the hell is it?
<remembers> oh, mailserver was down, I did File -> Save and then
couldn't find where it had gone, then forgot that it hadn't been posted...

alex