Okay guys, chew on this one. I've got an old Micron P200mmx system I'm trying to repartition into a dual-booting Linux/98SE box.
I've got an 8GB Maxtor HD in the box that has 4 FAT16 partitions and has 95OSR2.1 installed on it. I'm trying to reinstall the original
3.2GB Seagate drive that came with the system. Ultimately, I'd like to install 98SE on the Seagate and Linux on the Maxtor. The problem
I'm having is that when I put both drives in, fdisk always sees the Maxtor as disk 2 and the Seagate as disk 1, and so it won't let me set my
95 boot partition as the active partition; hence it won't boot. I had a (broken) 98 installation on the Seagate and it would boot off that, but
I've since erased that partition since I didn't want it anyway. Here's the important system info:
Mobo: Intel 430TX chipset, Phoenix BIOS (yes this sees the whole 8GB)
Hard Drives: 8GB Maxtor, 3.2GB Seagate
Primary IDE: Maxtor (Master), Seagate (Slave)
Secondary IDE: Zip drive (Master), CD-ROM (Slave)
All partitions on the Maxtor are FAT16 and Win95 OSR2.1 is installed on the primary partition. I've tried arranging the drives both ways on
the IDE chain, i.e. Maxtor as master and seagate as slave, and Seagate as master and Maxtor as slave, and both ways fdisk always sees
the Seagate as disk 1 and the Maxtor as disk 2. This is even more frustrating since fora bout 3 years I was running the system with both
drives and Linux on the Seagate dual-booting, and I never had this problem before.
Any help is appreciated. I just want to boot the system from the Maxtor with both drives in place, backup some data, and repartition
both drives again. My understanding is that fdisk should let me boot off of whatever drive is the primary master. Any help is appreciated.
Jeff Sand
jsand@interaccess.com
I've got an 8GB Maxtor HD in the box that has 4 FAT16 partitions and has 95OSR2.1 installed on it. I'm trying to reinstall the original
3.2GB Seagate drive that came with the system. Ultimately, I'd like to install 98SE on the Seagate and Linux on the Maxtor. The problem
I'm having is that when I put both drives in, fdisk always sees the Maxtor as disk 2 and the Seagate as disk 1, and so it won't let me set my
95 boot partition as the active partition; hence it won't boot. I had a (broken) 98 installation on the Seagate and it would boot off that, but
I've since erased that partition since I didn't want it anyway. Here's the important system info:
Mobo: Intel 430TX chipset, Phoenix BIOS (yes this sees the whole 8GB)
Hard Drives: 8GB Maxtor, 3.2GB Seagate
Primary IDE: Maxtor (Master), Seagate (Slave)
Secondary IDE: Zip drive (Master), CD-ROM (Slave)
All partitions on the Maxtor are FAT16 and Win95 OSR2.1 is installed on the primary partition. I've tried arranging the drives both ways on
the IDE chain, i.e. Maxtor as master and seagate as slave, and Seagate as master and Maxtor as slave, and both ways fdisk always sees
the Seagate as disk 1 and the Maxtor as disk 2. This is even more frustrating since fora bout 3 years I was running the system with both
drives and Linux on the Seagate dual-booting, and I never had this problem before.
Any help is appreciated. I just want to boot the system from the Maxtor with both drives in place, backup some data, and repartition
both drives again. My understanding is that fdisk should let me boot off of whatever drive is the primary master. Any help is appreciated.
Jeff Sand
jsand@interaccess.com
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