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Triple Boot questions and problems.....help....please?....

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Brian07

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I have just finished installing win98se, Win2k, and mandrake Linux 7.2 on my system. Here is what I've done:

9.1gb drive, partitioned as:
2gig c: Win98se installed
2gig d: Win2k installed
2gig e: Linux installed (190 swap file in this partition)

Now I've installed all three and they all run great, but my problem is with booting. The only way I can boot to linux is with a linux floppy, the only way I can boot to windows 98/2k is to leave the 2k or 98 disc in the cd rom, let it detect a bootable cd and choose which os to boot to. If I take all floppies and cd roms out, I make it just pass the irq listing and I get HIT ANY KEY TO REBOOT. This will just loop until I either insert a 98/2k disc or linux floppy. My system is as follows:
AMD 1ghz t-bird
Abit KT7A
seagate 9.1 scsi
Adaptec 2940UW
Plextor 40Ultra

I have the bios set to boot to scsi and it doesn't work. I set it to HD0 and it still doesn't work. I have to do one of the above mentioned things to get it to work. Also, what will it hurt if I use the rest of the above unpartioned space to isntall both 98 and 2k programs? I realize I can't install the same programs or they'll overwrite each other, but will sharing this empty partion hurt? I have a 30 gig drive to use for everything else, but I'm leaving it unhooked and out of the picture until I resolve this boot issue. Any help is appreciated!!

Brian
 
Nope, I was under the impression that Win 2k would take care of the boot process, but I guess when I installed Linux it wiped it out.... This may be the problem, do you know of a good tutorial for installing Lilo?
 
Sounds like lilo mucked up the ntldr. you can fix the ntloader by booting the 2k install CD, choose repair, boot into console, and type: fixmbr

luckily you made a linux boot floppy, otherwise fixing the mbr would probably make your linux installation useless.

you can add linux to the nt boot menu, but it's a bit tricky.
this site explains how to do it.
 
I tried the fix MBR trick but the only thing that changed is now after the comp detects the bootable cd rom I get the option of choosing where to boot, but once I remove the discs/diskette, I still get the same "Press any key to reboot". It would kinda appear that my bios is having a hard time detecting my Hard drive, or at least it appears so....any ideas?
 
weird, fixmbr has always worked for me.

there is another way, you can use a floppy to boot into DOS, and fdisk /mbr
 
Here's what I do.

Install 98 then 2000 then Linux.

2000 loader lets u choose between 98 and 2000.

load Linux on to the first sector. Not the master boot record, or problems arise.

Load up Linux, do fdisk on the drive and set the boot flag to boot off of the / partition, (toggle the NTFS boot to off).

Go into Lilo and add the Windows 2000 entry, or go into Linuxconf and add an operating system in the boot options.

Run Lilo
It'll tell ya that it added Win2k and Linux.

reboot.

THis is the easy way. Getting 2000 to do the loading is a pain.

After you do this you can then go into Linuxconf and set which OS to default boot to. Easy.

🙂

Inosuke
 
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