Re: Lilo and Win98 Q's

2001-01-31 Thread Kent West
KC6SBJ wrote: Has anyone found Lilo not to be written over while installing Win98 on c: (hda1). Try "fdisk /mbr" from a DOS/Win9x boot floppy (it'll have to have fdisk on it, of course). This will wipe the master boot record (leaving the rest of the disk/partitions intact). Then, if you've

Re: Lilo and Win98 Q's

2001-01-30 Thread Casey Webster
on my dual boot machine, a windows reinstall always overwrites the mbr to boot straight into windows. I always keep boot floppy around so i can boot and re-lilo the thing. If you are having problems getting lilo to load windows, the line i have in my lilo.conf to do this is other=/dev/hda1 la

Lilo and Win98 Q's

2001-01-30 Thread KC6SBJ
Has anyone found Lilo not to be written over while installing Win98 on c: (hda1). Why is Windows going back on my machine. The Kids Games that caused it to crash. I am still booting Storm / Debian potato and Windows will not reload. Even after formating C: (hda1). Glad somthing is working, Even i

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-22 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:29:53 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ah, when you said "File System is 32-bit" i thought you meant just that, >and not the filesystem io. Ah, but this isn't about what _I_ mean, but what terminology W9x uses... >Checking, the io is indeed 32 bit. Also, as

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-22 Thread Brad
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote: > Would you mind checking? The information on that tab doesn't actually > apply to the filesystem itself, but to the disk I/O driver. W9x says > the filesystem is 32 bit if it has completely replaced the BIOS disk > drivers with its own, protected mode

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-22 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:28:54 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote: > >> Interesting to see that this works for W9x. Just out of curiousity: if >> you go to Control Panel -> System and press the device tab, does it say >> the File System is 32-bit

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-21 Thread Brad
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote: > On 20 Jun 1999 23:43:06 +0200, Rui Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >other=/dev/hdb1 > >label=win > >map-drive=0x80 > > to=0x81 > >map-drive=0x81 > > to=0x80 > > Interesting to see that this works for W9x.

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-21 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:39:56 +0200, "Sander Balkenende" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I resolved the problem of booting Linux by making my win98 drive hda again >and reinstalled Debian on hdb (at the moment, I am just experimenting with >Linux). This works fine, I have to fine-tune loadlin, but

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-21 Thread Sander Balkenende
I resolved the problem of booting Linux by making my win98 drive hda again and reinstalled Debian on hdb (at the moment, I am just experimenting with Linux). This works fine, I have to fine-tune loadlin, but that works. When trying to load loadlin from config.sys with the [menu] command, it wor

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-21 Thread Gertjan Klein
On 20 Jun 1999 23:43:06 +0200, Rui Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >other=/dev/hdb1 >label=win >map-drive=0x80 > to=0x81 >map-drive=0x81 > to=0x80 Interesting to see that this works for W9x. Just out of curiousity: if you go to Control Panel -> System a

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-21 Thread Brad
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Sander Balkenende wrote: > hi > I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start > win (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine. I have the exact same setup (unless you have the new release of '98), even the same partition numbers. First,

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-20 Thread Rui Zhu
Sander Balkenende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi > I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start win > (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine. my lilo.conf: > > boot=/dev/hda1 > root=/dev/hda1 > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-20 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 21:23:38 -0230, Greg Starkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I believe that Windows 98 (like DOS and Windows95) must be on the first >partition of the first hard drive. There is no requirement that W98 be on the first partition, but none of DOS/W95/W98 directly support being boo

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-20 Thread DYang50492
In a message dated 6/19/99 10:20:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> I don't know how lilo works exactly. but,the general rule is that the partition for win98 must be bootable itself. Then MBR is capable of switching to win98 booting ar

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-20 Thread jello
> I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start win > (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine. my lilo.conf: > > boot=/dev/hda1 > root=/dev/hda1 > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-on

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: > to boot dos (or win) this hd must be the first. how about the exchange > of the hd´s? or, maybe, if you make your hdb bootable... i just looked into /usr/doc/lilo/manual.txt.gz and found MAP-DRIVE= Instructs chain.b to installs a resident driver that re-maps the floppy

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Greg Starkes
> Sander Balkenende wrote: > > hi > I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start > win (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine. my > lilo.conf: I believe that Windows 98 (like DOS and Windows95) must be on the first partition of the first hard drive. Rem

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Sander Balkenende wrote: > table=/dev/hdb hm, hm, i try to remember and... yes. to boot dos (or win) this hd must be the first. how about the exchange of the hd´s? or, maybe, if you make your hdb bootable... good luck hfi

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Sander Balkenende
> > I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start > > win (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine. my > > lilo.conf: > > > other=/dev/hdb1 > > label=dos > > could it your missing ´table?' I added the line table=/dev/hdb and after doing /sbin/lilo, no

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
> I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start > win (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine. my > lilo.conf: > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=dos a look at my lilo.conf reveals: other=/dev/hda1 label=DOS table=/dev/hda could it your missing ´table´? sorr

lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Sander Balkenende
hi I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start win (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine. my lilo.conf:   boot=/dev/hda1root=/dev/hda1install=/boot/boot.bmap=/boot/mapvga=normaldelay=20image=/vmlinuz    label=Linux    read-onlyother=/dev/hdb1    l