Solved: win98/hamm dual boot problem

[Michael Stenner <mstenner@phy.duke.edu>]

Thanks to all that offered suggestions on this one.  For future use, I'm
posting below the solution that worked (quite nicely) for me, since it
wasn't posted previously.
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Michael Stenner wrote (Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:39:43 -0400 (EDT) ):
|>Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed
|>hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was
|>hooked up at a time.  Than, I put both drives in:  Linux as hda and win
|>as hdb.  THis was nothing new for linux, so I started up linux and ran
|>lilo with the following lilo.conf:
|>
|>boot=/dev/hda1
|>delay=50
|>image=/vmlinuz
|>  root=/dev/hda1
|>  label=linux
|>  read-only
|>other=/dev/hdb1
|>  label=win
|>  table=/dev/hdb
|>
|>linux boots well via lilo now, but windows doesn't boot at all:  after
|>typing "win" at LILO:, it just hangs.  Any ideas at all would be very
|>much appreciated.
---------------- Response from Alan Su:
windows is generally unhappy about booting from a slave drive, if i'm
correct.  i would try to switch it around with the following steps:

- change the master/slave settings on both drives
- boot from the linux rescue disk and at the boot prompt, type
  'rescue root=/dev/hdb1'
- change lilo.conf to:
  boot=/dev/hda        <--- change to /dev/hda
  delay=50
  image=/vmlinuz
    root=/dev/hdb1     <--- change to /dev/hdb1
    label=linux
    read-only
  other=/dev/hda1      <--- change to /dev/hda1
    label=win
    table=/dev/hda     <--- change to /dev/hda
  (lilo will install itself onto the master boot record of the windows
  drive.  the rest of the drive references have been swapped.)
- run lilo, and make sure there are no errors.
- reboot!

the reasoning behind installing lilo on the mbr rather than the boot
partition is that i *believe* that windows needs that boot partition
for something.  i'm not entirely sure, but i know that a configuration
like the one above works.

hope that helps...(at least a little).

-alan
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Just a couple more notes:
  The installation CD works as a rescue floppy (I forgot that)
  Remember to change /etc/fstab.  Linux is happy to move (ulike windows)
	as long as you *tell* it.  :)  


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