On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Einar Sundgren wrote:
>=20
> Ok, sadly i finally had to install win 98, my first time using any win
> version on my own computer :(
>=20
> I did like this, disconnected my master hd (hda) and used another minor
> hd my hdb as the primary master while installing win, so i finally got
> a bootable win 98 installation on it. Now i swithced back so that my
> linux and lilo drive is hda and my win 98 drive is hdb, set up
> LILO using gnome linuxconfig and then updated LILO.
>=20
> What i=B4m getting when i boot win 98 with lilo is a "non system disk
or
> disk error " from windows (yes i know it=B4s win and not bios =B4cause
i
> have a swedish win version and an english bios).
So you've translated the message for us? That looks for all the world
like the message micro$oft has been putting in partition and floppy boot
records since dos 2.1 and if they are still using the same format (I bet
they are, they actually documented it), if you look in byte 0x24
(counting
from 0) you will find a bios drive number 0 (0x80). I think you have
only to change that to drive 1 (0x81) and all will be well. The boot
program actually uses that byte in the reads it does to look for io.sys
and msdos.sys. I would just use bpe to look at and change /dev/hdb1,
but if it would make you more comfortable, you could copy it with dd,
work on it with whatever binary editor you like, and copy it back, so:
dd if=3D/dev/hdb1 of=3Ddosboot bs=3D512 count=3D1
edit dosboot
dd of=3D/dev/hdb1 if=3Ddosboot bs=3D512 count=3D1
It is the partition boot record you want: /dev/hdb1 or so, not the
master boot record of /dev/hdb.
>=20
> I thought that i might depend on me having win 98 on the primary slave
> drive and that it doesn=B4t like that could it be so ? I know I could
> always switch drives and make hdb -> hda and reversed and then install
> lilo onto the mbr of the win disk but i would like to boot from my
linux
>=20
> drive =B4cause it=B4s much faster and then it feels better having linux
o=
n
> the master drive and not let microsoft win :)
How does one say "we shall overcome!" in Swedish? :-)
Lawson
=09 >< Microsoft free environment
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