On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:11 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I am using a machine at work that has an AMD Duron 1200 MHz i386 chip in it > and two hard disks. The master is a 40GB drive and the secondary one is a > 20GB drive. > > Debian Etch r0 i386 lives on the 40GB drive. > > I used to have Fedora Core 6 on the 20 GB drive but now I wiped it off using > the debian installer partitioning software..... > > After a lot of farting around I managed to install Windows 98 on the smaller > 20GB drive. > I need it to run certain software I can't easily run in Linux. > > I had to disconnect the master 40GB drive to get windows to think the slave > drive was the primary drive.... It then installed. > > I have been booting the Debian on the master disk with a boot floppy with > grub on it. This works fine. > > But it doesn't see the Windows and so I can't boot it now after I have > reconnected the master hard drive.... > > I can only boot Debian. > > How do I reconfigure the grub to see the windows 98 partition and allow me > the option of booting it without having to reinstall the entire Debian OS on > the big disk? > > I think I could also do better to drop using the floppy and just have the > machine boot with grub from the hard disk itself and then give me the option > of firing up either Debian or Windows 98... > > Your suggestions on achieving this would be appreciated. > > I have discovered that Windows can be tough to install relative to most > Linux distributions. Here is the ending snippet from my non-usable, but still seen Windows on my Wifes computer. ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating systems: root # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/hde1 title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd1,0) savedefault chainloader +1 -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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