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: I have LILO dual booting my PC between Linux and Win98. Booting into Linux is
: fine. I can mount and access my Goldstar CD drive - no problem. Now if I
: reboot into Win98, the CD drive becomes unavailable. Even if I don't mount
: the CD drive in Linux.

: My CD is the Master on the Secondary on-board IDE controller. Win98's Device
: Manager "helpfully" reports that the device is "not working" with "Error Code
: 10"??? Whatever that is.

Check if your drivers are running in msdos-compatibility mode. If it
is, then most likely Windows refuse to load in all the drivers during
bootup. Maybe, Windows doesn't like your LILO changing the MBR. Mine
didn't like it, so I used loadlin now.

If you install Linux in a harddisk partition, that was known before
for Windows (DOS), than it will disappear after. Consequently the
drive letters will change, and Windows does not know about this.
For example: you have no Linux, but a harddisk with two Windows
partitions, C: and D:, the second one empty. The CD drive will be E:

If you redeclare D: as Linux partition, and install Linux there,
it will be invisible for Windows, thus the CDROM for Windows should
be D:. This is however not changed in Windows registry.
If memory serves, a Windows update can help.

Janos Ero