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Red Hat/Win 98 Dual Boot Problem

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edie

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I am a long time Red Hat user. I recently added a new hard drive containing Windows 98 to my machine, so now I have a Win98 hd and a Linux hd. The problem is that the Win98 hd needs to be the primary "hda" in order to boot, however I already have Red Hat installed on what _used_ to be hda, so when I try to get into Linux the boot disks etc. can't find the old instalation because they are looking for the root parition on hda3, and now the computer thinks it is hdb3.

How do I fix this without reinstalling Linux? Can I just edit the partition table in the old install to point to hdb instead of hda? Seems risky. Would something like "Partition Magic" help me out?

Thanks for the help,
Edie
 
At the LILO prompt enter the new root directory:

LILO: root=/dev/hdb3

Should boot up and then you can edit your /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf files accordingly.
 
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