At 2004-07-15T13:44:03+1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> it was grub stage 1 in MBR for sure, so i assume that meant that the
> dos/w98 boot sector was in the first partition. Must do I suppose.
Okay.
> yes (thank goodness for being able to boot linux and look around )
I thought they would be there, but that leaves me a little confused
about why the stage 1 NT loader is complaining.
My memory about the exact behaviour of the NT loader is a little hazy...
I might try and replicate your configuration once I get home so that I
can see what's happened.
> err wots ARC? I know, google.
Advanced RISC Computing {,Platform}. What does it have to do with x86?
Don't ask. ;-) Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, NT once ran
on other architectures (at least MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC--not counting the
early N-10 development).
> boot from cd i assume?
Ah, actually, it's tricky in your situation. Rescue mode is usually
initiated from the NT loader via a separate menu entry. I think you can
boot the rescue console from the install CD, but it's been a while since
I tried, so I can't recite the steps.
If not, you'd need to boot a DOS floppy to do it.
> you do this from fdisk or similar do you? is that the same as it being
> marked "boot" when I look at the partition table with linux's fdisk?
Correct on both counts.
> nothing in boot.ini for win98 that I can see. boot.ini says:
> [boot loader]
> timeout=1
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
> Professional" /fastdetect (thats one line)
> C:\ = "Microsoft Windows"
The last "Microsoft Windows" entry is for Win98. The ARC path for Win2k
also looks correct given the setup you've described.
> Am I naive in assuming the format of this file is open and that i can
> figure out how to include w98? (actually I am confused already over
> their disk/partition naming scheme, that is without research!
Not sure what you mean by open, but it's fairly well documented in the
MS Knowledge Base, and you're free to edit it with a plain text editor
if you need to.
Cheers,
-mjg
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