by Greg,
Along with some advice (further down the message), I have a similar issue
that I would like to ask the group for help with that might help you too.
I have a system that will boot into either Windows 98, Windows NT, or Linux
RH 5.2. I took a bit of a different approach to the install. I am using
PowerQuest's Partition Magic 4.0 and Boot Magic. Here is an outline of the
steps I did to accomplish this.
-Install Windows 95
-Upgrade to Windows 98
-I kept it the primary partition Fat 16 to accomodate Windows NT
-Install Partition Magic
-Install Boot Magic
-Set up partitions for Windows NT Install
-Install Windows NT from Windows 98
-Set up boot in Boot Magic to choose between 98 or NT
-Set up partitions for Linux Install
- Install Linux RH 5.2 on my secondary disk keeping LILO on that same
partition.
-I used the second disk for my Linux install because Disk Druid would not
recognize the Linux partition on the first drive since the NTFS partition
was on that disk. To the best of my knowledge, this is a known problem that
has been fixed with an install patch for Linux RH 6.1 and was created after
I did my install. So I am limited to keeping all of Linux RH 5.2 on my
second drive.
I think you are having similar issues with NTFS and that is the culprit. My
best advise to you would be to keep Linux on it's own drive and keep LILO on
the same partition as Linux. I am by no means endorsing PowerQuest products,
but you may need something with similar functionality. I suppose a boot disk
would probably do the same, but I didn't go that route, so I can't speak
from experience.
My big issue now is that I have wasted space on my first disk and I am short
disk space on the second disk. I have used Partition Magic to move things
around, but there seems to be a conflict that won't allow the Linux Ext2
partition to play well with NTFS. Disk druid just doesn't seem to like it
where ever you put it. Another issue is that the primary partition for
Windows NT has to reside within the first 4 GB of hard drive space on the
primary disk.
If anyone has any suggestions, other than buying a bigger disk for my
secondary disk and/or getting RH 6.1 (and the install patch), I'd love to
hear it. I know I probably have several other options, many of which I've
explored, but I think this is what I will end up doing.
-Jeff
>Hi...
>I have been reading through some related postings, but still cannot
>rectify this mess. I used to have a dual-boot machine with Win98 and
>RH Linux 6.1 configuration that worked just fine. I added Win2000
>into the mess (under duress, but that's another story). I have
>Win2000's bool manager in the MBR and LILO in the /boot partition
>superblock. Here is my drives configuration:
>/dev/sda is a Seagate Cheetah 9.1GB SCSI
>/dve/hda is a Maxtor 17.1GB EIDE
>/dev/sda1 /boot 100MB Linux Native
>/dev/sda2 (Win98) 3GB FAT32
>/dev/sda3 (Win2000) 4GB NTFS
>/dev/sda4 / 1.5GB Linux Native
>/dev/sda5 (Linux Swap) 512MB Linux Swap
>/dev/hda1 /usr 8GB Linux Native
>/dev/hda2 (Win Data) 9GB FAT32
>I reformatted and repartitioned both drives whrn I added Win2000. I
>always had the SCSI used for system and main programs with the IDE for
>data and other /usr stuff. This worked fine with just Linux and Win98
>and LILO in the MBR.
>I installed got the partitions set, installed Linux first, then Win98,
>then Win2000. I told LILOto go into the /dev/sda1 superblock during
>install. I cannot boot to Linux at all without a boot floppy. I
>mounted a DOS floppy and created a boot sector image (dd if=/dev/sda1
>of=/mnt/floppy/bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1), rebooted to Win2000 and
>copied the bootsect.lin file to a readable partition and added the
>following line to the boot.ini file: c:\bootsect.lin="Linux". Reboot
>and select the "Linux" option returns the letters "LI" and then my PC
>freezes.
>Just for kicks, i rebooted into Linux (using the boot floppy which
>takes forever, btw) and created a bootsect.lin file from the floppy
>(dd if=/mnt/floppy of=bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1) and then copied
>this into the Win2000 boot disk. Now I can select the Linux option,
>but I have to have hte boot floppy in the drive to boot Linux.
>What am I doing wrong? I have tried everything I can think of, but
>still cannot get this working. I have even tried bootpart, but it
>only sees the IDE drive partitions, so it's no help.
>Thanx in advance for any assistance...
>Greg