Hello,
You might want to look at the "Linux+Win9x+Grub HOWTO." I have been trying
to use a CD that seems to offer the promise of installing Window$ NT (mostly
to see if it would work). Since I already have ML9.1 installed and don't
really want to mess it up, I decided to carve out a third primary partition
at the end of my hard disk, and see what could be done. The HOWTO purports
to teach one how to install the Win OS on something other that the beginning
of the hard drive, but make GRUB fool it into thinking that it is [with lines
such as "map (hd0,2) (hd0,0)." The CD that I have used to install NT writes
a bunch of files to disk, then instructs you to reboot, at which point the
installation is supposed to continue, but I can't seem to get beyond this
point (any suggestions or explanations would be welcome). At any rate, I
don't lay claim to any kind of expertise (I don't even know what "BR" means),
but this how to, and the grub info page (especially the 'map' commands). The
grub info also says, however, that some OAS might use special drivers that
would make this mapping irrelevant. Smells like Win to me :^( )
In the hope that this isn't wholly irrelevant,
Jim.
On Sunday 27 July 2003 01:46 pm, Eric Huff wrote:
> Here was a response i got about this awhile ago. Doesn't help you too
> much, but it's a data point.
> Hopefully someone else will have a better answer.
>
> eric
>
> > > I have also run XP in
> > > another partition, and crashed it often, then reinstalled it, and it
> > > has never reworked the MBR, just put itself back in with out
> > > destruction.
> >
> > Is it "safe" to reinstall 98 and XP? I was always told it would
> > reformat your entire drive (wether you wanted it to or not).
>
> XP seems to understand partitions. 98 likes to take the whole drive..
> I've had some luck doing a repair... not much... but some, with 98.
>
>
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:06:11 -0400
>
> crak600 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i know that in order for the mbr to be rewritten properly by linux in
> > a dual boot system, the ms-win OS of choice must be installed before
> > doing a linux install. but if i go and format out my ms-win OS and
> > reinstall it (i'm using win98), will the mbr be rewritten and i won't
> > be able to get back into linux? and if that does happen, how do i get
> > the mbr re-written so i can access linux again? i've been looking for
> > an answer to this but can't seem to find it, and win98 needs to be
> > re-installed as i'm having massive problems with it. (and i wish i
> > could make this a microsoft free computer, but currently i can't)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mike
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