[TriLUG] [OT] Win2k boot problem

[Brian Payst]

I had a similar problem on old hardware. The BIOS didn't support large hard
disks and I had one installed as a secondary with a utility loaded in the
MBR that faked the BIOS into seeing the disk (the name escapes me at the
moment, it was from Wstern Digital, I believe). Anyway, GRRUB would never
boot the machine, but LILO was quite happy to for some reason. I never spent
much time figuring it out, LILO worked fine for me for many years and I just
let it be.

So, maybe try a different boot loader ?

Good luck,
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org]On Behalf
Of Tarus Balog
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 9:34 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] [OT] Win2k boot problem



Ken Mink said:
> Hey Ben,
>   The partitioning on both disks is the same. Windows is and was on
> /dev/hda1. Both hda1's are the same size and the first partition on the
> disk. I did the original Win2k install on FAT32. I wanted to be able
> access the Windows partitions read/write from Linux. The partition is
> bootable. I'm stumped.
>
> Ken

You could try this:

1) Create a boot floppy under Linux
2) Insure that it works
3) Get a Windows floppy with fdisk and run "fdisk /mbr"
4) Insure that you can get to your Windows partition now, if not I don't
know what's up.
5) Boot back to Linux and re-install grub

-T

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