At 12:50 PM 9/13/99 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Herman Aa wrote:
>> I have trouble with WIN98(95) co-existing with Linux (RH 5.0).
>>
>Strange...it works here. I'm dual-booting Win98 and RH 6.0
>(work machine.)
Mine does work most of the time. I agree it SHOULD work, ALL the time....
> One difference (besides versions of RedHat)
>is that I'm using LILO and you're using LINLOAD. That MIGHT
>be the problem there. I suspect LINLOAD is looking for the
>something in the MBR or something that gets wiped out with
>defrag. I have NO (ZERO) problems with Win98 Defrag here.
>Have you thought of just making a boot floppy and booting
>off that when you want to go to Linux? That way you'd be
>able to defrag to your heart's content.
>
LINLOAD does this:
Loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 ro
No bootsector. Not within the reach of DEFRAG as it is on a floppy.
With linload there is no interaction with WINxx
The main problem is that something is changing the partition-table
of the EXTENDED partition (=all logical partition E: thru G: in the
extended partition affected). All drives GONE (only C: and CDROM
drive left)
However just restoring the partition-table from a rescue diskette
brings E: thru G: back. No damage to any harddisk-data if I 'rescue'
immediately.
I am interested in booting direct off floppy. It's one of the next
things to do with Linux.
Still looking for the docs on booting.
I find floppy startup a lot easier than LILO.
I got turned off on LILO because I often ended up in Linux when I
wanted to boot WIN95. The default is 'linux' as set by RH 5.0
ezstart.bat installer.
A newbie with no working-knowledge yet of linux needs default 'dos'
>One other thing....although it's not exactly relevant to
>Linux....you really shouldn't use DOS-level defrag utils
>(including Norton Commander, MSDOS Defrag, etc) on a Win98
>system, at least not if you're using FAT32! That's a good
>way to kill your FAT32!!!
I am aware of the old-DOS-pgms problem. I strictly use WINxx tools.
The DEFRAG I used was the WIN98 defrag.
I limit myself to FAT16 to minimize compatibility problems.
Thanks for helping.
Herman Aa.
>From a mountaintop on Cebu island, Philippines.
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