My latest OS installs turned out to be a real nightmare. Is there some sort of problem with Grub and booting NTFS? Is this from PM? Did I do something really really bad?
This is what happened:
First I used partition magic 5 to grow my boot partition from 100MB to a little over a gig. It ended up being FAT32, I discovered that latter. I also pushed the end of my Win2K NTFS partition back about 3 gigs for Redhat 7.2. After doing this, Win2K booted fine (which I found odd, in the past I had to run the repair disc to get it going after moving things around.
THen I installed Redhat 7.2. I allowed it to use Grub, 'cause it looks cool. Install went fine, Grub booted Linux fine. Except it had two more entries: Win98 (dos at the time) and Win2K. Neither would boot, ntldr not found. Hmmm.
So I figured I had to redo the partitions anyway, and installed Win98 in it's gig (I use it for microprosser programming, my old 16 bit apps are okay in Win2K but I don't mind dual booting). It wiped out Grub, I think, and installed fine. Then it would boot Win98 fine, but of course no Win2K boot loader.
So I boot the rescue disc, fast repair. On reboot, Win2K loads fine. I run Linux (boot disk), use Lilo and write my boot sector to the Linux partition, then do that dd trick to get a bootsect.lnx (like in the FAQ). I stuck that into my c: (/dev/hda1) drive and edited the boot.ini from Linux. Okay, reboot. Three options, all work.
Then I reboot again, Try Win98, operating system not found. Yikes.
I ran my 98 boot disk, fdisk /mbr, sys c:, then after loading Win09 did the rescue disk. All works.
Shutdown for the night...
Next morning, it crapped out again. I don't even remember what it was anymore, no Win2K I think, No Win2K boot menu.. just Win98.
I boot from my win98 boot floppy, fdisk /mbr and sys c:. Now Win98 boots again. Okay. I ran partition magic and realized my one gig partition was FAT32 (it was FAT before I think, can you even make 100MB FAT32? Not unless you try I thought). So I converted it to FAT16 for the hell of it.
Now I run the rescue disc and get Win2K's boot loader back. Win98 and Win2K work.
And, a few seconds ago I heard a new weird high pitched noise. Hmmmmmm.
This is what happened:
First I used partition magic 5 to grow my boot partition from 100MB to a little over a gig. It ended up being FAT32, I discovered that latter. I also pushed the end of my Win2K NTFS partition back about 3 gigs for Redhat 7.2. After doing this, Win2K booted fine (which I found odd, in the past I had to run the repair disc to get it going after moving things around.
THen I installed Redhat 7.2. I allowed it to use Grub, 'cause it looks cool. Install went fine, Grub booted Linux fine. Except it had two more entries: Win98 (dos at the time) and Win2K. Neither would boot, ntldr not found. Hmmm.
So I figured I had to redo the partitions anyway, and installed Win98 in it's gig (I use it for microprosser programming, my old 16 bit apps are okay in Win2K but I don't mind dual booting). It wiped out Grub, I think, and installed fine. Then it would boot Win98 fine, but of course no Win2K boot loader.
So I boot the rescue disc, fast repair. On reboot, Win2K loads fine. I run Linux (boot disk), use Lilo and write my boot sector to the Linux partition, then do that dd trick to get a bootsect.lnx (like in the FAQ). I stuck that into my c: (/dev/hda1) drive and edited the boot.ini from Linux. Okay, reboot. Three options, all work.
Then I reboot again, Try Win98, operating system not found. Yikes.
I ran my 98 boot disk, fdisk /mbr, sys c:, then after loading Win09 did the rescue disk. All works.
Shutdown for the night...
Next morning, it crapped out again. I don't even remember what it was anymore, no Win2K I think, No Win2K boot menu.. just Win98.
I boot from my win98 boot floppy, fdisk /mbr and sys c:. Now Win98 boots again. Okay. I ran partition magic and realized my one gig partition was FAT32 (it was FAT before I think, can you even make 100MB FAT32? Not unless you try I thought). So I converted it to FAT16 for the hell of it.
Now I run the rescue disc and get Win2K's boot loader back. Win98 and Win2K work.
And, a few seconds ago I heard a new weird high pitched noise. Hmmmmmm.
