Liangyu Wang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed Mandrake 7.1 under windows 98 and after installation, Grub
> provided a menu to choose operating system, Linux and windows. It worked
> well. Later, I wanted to set windows to be default OS, So in
> DrakeConf->DrakeBoot, I set the boot device from hda to hda1. Now I know I
> should not set in this way, but I got a problem: The machine can only start
> linux, not windows even though the windows option is still in the Grub menu
> and even though I set the boot device back to hda.
>
> I don't know how to get windows back, Could someone help me out?
I had this happen when installing a certain distro... looks like you clobbered
your W98 boot block on hda1... this should have an "Are you sure?" dialog.
I got lucky and found a M$ boot block sitting in /boot (RedHat) which worked for
me... I think boot.0340 was the one.
There are several *.b and boot.* files in /boot; most of the time they don't
contain what they their name implies... If you are lucky, you will find one
that will work; but it's really risky. Find a bootable Windblows diskette and
have a look at the boot block; if I remember correctly, the hd version is
similar. Do NOT try to write a /boot/*.b or /boot/boot.* to your hda1 unless
you are pretty certain it is a M$ boot block.
Of course, the last resort is to re-install W98...
Use at your own risk; provided so that someone might know more about these /boot
files...
> Liangyu
-- Pierre
Linux: Because rebooting is for hardware upgrades:
4:42pm up 10 days, 6:41, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.07, 0.06
Last reboot reason: Installed new BackUPS power supply.
