At 2004-07-15T12:11:24+1200, Nick Rout wrote: > 3. when grub tries to load the old win98 stanza, [1] it simply > produces the error message:
> "NTLDR is missing > Press any key to restart" You could be affected by this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q314057&ID=KB;EN-US;q314057 My experiment definitely wouldn't have been, as I was using small (<8GB) disks. > 5. I have been unable to persuade grub to boot the presumably > installed w2k on /dev/hdb1 To clarify something: you can't boot Win2k from hdb1 directly using GRUB--you have to use the NT loader, which, as explained, is (and must be) installed on the first bootable Windows partition, which will be hda1 (Win98) in your case. Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
