This is not a bug, necessarily, but this list was advertised as a source of help with grub. I'm rebuilding a win98 Compaq Deskpro 2000 as dual boot for an acquaintance. She wants to have her old system to fall back on. Apparently these old Compaq's stashed some of their BIOS configuration on the c: drive. Makes me reluctant to go messing with her MBR, since I know so little about the particulars of her machine.
I have her old 2gb drive with win98 at hda1 (hd0,0), with her D drive at hda2 (hd0,1). I have the new debian system at root hdb2 (hd1,1) and boot at hdb1 (hd1,0). I'm booting from a grub floppy with a menu.lst on it at boot/grub/. It finds and boots the Debian system without a hitch. But will only boot the win98 installation if I first unplug hdb, otherwise it merely hangs. My win98 stanza in the grub file reads: title Windows 98 Legacy System rootnoverify (hd0,0) make active chainloader +1 boot Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Hugh -- RCK Computer Services http://reclaimedcomputers.ca/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub