Dual Boot woes

[Guest Mike]

Hi folks-

 

I've got a problem. I had Win98 and Win2k together on seperate

partitions on the same drive and both were working. Boot manager was

working, etc. I can't remember the chain of events, but I ended up

running fdisk /mbr and lost Win2k. Win98 booted only after that. Then,

I reinstalled Win2k. But, I never got back Win98 in the boot menu.

 

I'e tried adding Win98 to the boot.ini and get the error about

ntoskrnl.exe being missing or corrupt. Well, I don't think it needs to

be on the Win98 partition, does it?

 

My partition layout is as follows:

 

Primary - win98

first logical in extended - win2k

second logical - win2k swap

rest of the logicals are for linux, but linux is not installed yet.

 

i'm worried that linux boot loaders won't pickup on win2k AND win98 if

I don't fix this problem first?

[Guest Bill Blanton]

Re: Dual Boot woes

 

"Mike" <fatbucket@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1191676277.731040.17260@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...

> Hi folks-

>

> I've got a problem. I had Win98 and Win2k together on seperate

> partitions on the same drive and both were working. Boot manager was

> working, etc. I can't remember the chain of events, but I ended up

> running fdisk /mbr and lost Win2k. Win98 booted only after that. Then,

> I reinstalled Win2k. But, I never got back Win98 in the boot menu.

 

Did you happen to run a "Sys C:" also? Fdisk/mbr shouldn't have been a

problem. If you did do a Sys, then that would have blown away the 98

boot sector that W2k installed in order to dual boot.

>

> I'e tried adding Win98 to the boot.ini and get the error about

> ntoskrnl.exe being missing or corrupt. Well, I don't think it needs to

> be on the Win98 partition, does it?

 

You mean adding W2K to boot.ini? When you boot, do you get the

boot menu with the choice of OSs? What's currently contained in boot.ini?

 

>

> My partition layout is as follows:

>

> Primary - win98

> first logical in extended - win2k

> second logical - win2k swap

> rest of the logicals are for linux, but linux is not installed yet.

>

> i'm worried that linux boot loaders won't pickup on win2k AND win98 if

> I don't fix this problem first?

 

Not necessarily. If you're going to be multi booting with Linux, the Linux

boot loader(grub?) may be all you need. Another option would be to install a

third party boot manager such as BootitNG. Personally, I'd steer clear of

using (fixing) Microsoft's boot manager. It creates too many obstacles to change.