I've seen strange thing like that with "bad" partitions created with dos
fdisk or windows tools and after people install linux on that "bad"
partitions without checking before with linux fdisk (problem of overlapping
partitions consequence of create-delete-recreate partitions without attention
...and than partition table goes ko ... ;o) Also problem with W2k become
unbootable cause shifting of partitions... on my test workstation I've a
boot.ini with eight entries to evitate that problem, may be same thing for
win98 ?? (I never used that SO)
My suggest : if you have an also partitioned(more than one partition) disk
start linux install in rescue mode and check it with linux fdisk before begin
real install to identificate potential problems....;o)
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, John C. Reddersen wrote:
> I reported this same problem last week and got no responses, so feel lucky
> that people were at least reading your post...
>
> I caused my problem doing an update, not the initial install, so it's
> something that's changed from Beta2, which is what I originally installed.
>
> My solution (not a very good one BTW) was to boot with a floppy of
> something prior to Win95 (Aka WIN3.11, DOS) and reinstall Win98! I tried
> FDISK /MBR, then completely deleting the Windows partition with Partition
> Magic and creating a new one (after backing up anything I wanted to save of
> course, since I could still read the drive under Linux), but nothing I did
> would allow me to boot from a Win95/98/xx boot disk.
>
> Just in case anyone is interested, my setup is:
> ASUS P3B-F Motherboard (6 PCI, 0 ISA model) with PIII 450
> 128 MB RAM
> Quantum Fireball 18.2GB HD
> Standard floppy (not LS-120)
> Creative Labs Graphics Blaster TNT2 Ultra
> SB Live! Value
> LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 Network card
> Microsoft Intellimouse with Intellieye USB (works!)
> Nokia 446XS Monitor with USB hub connecting the next 2 devices
> Lexmark Z51 (haven't got this working yet)
> Visioneer 6xxx USB Scanner (haven't got this working yet)
>
> -John Reddersen
>
> --- allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a curious problem.
> >
> > I installed the latest snapshot of the beta (from before the pam fixes
> > today)
> >
> > Now, I cannot, no matter what even boot windows 98.
> >
> > Not from CD, floppy or hard disk.
> >
> > Has *anyone* seen anything like this?
> >
> > I am running an Athlon K7 800 on a KT133 Motherboard
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Allen
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