[Wylug-help] Grub, dual boot query

[Dave Brotherstone]

Are you using grub or lilo?  Presumably hda is set to boot in the BIOS
(probably HDD0), so  (in my limited understanding), you'll need the
MBR (master boot record) of HDD0 to contain your linux compatible
bootloader, eg. grub or lilo.  With grub, there's some fairly easy
instructions on the man page about using "chainloader" in the config
file to get w98 to boot of a separate disk.

To install grub, once you've got it setup (sorry, no longer a redhat
person, but presumably there's an RPM for it), just type grub.   Then
at the prompt, "root (1,0)", then "setup (0,0)", i think.  This will
install a bootloader on the first disk (0,0), and set the root to be
the second disk (1,0).

Beware to read the manpage first, because I presume you'll need to
take a copy of the existing boot loader for win98 BEFORE you do the
setup (0,0) in order to enable booting w98.  And my memory on these
things isn't great, as it's not something you very often obviously! 
man grub should tell you all you need to know about chain loading
other OSes.

hth,

Dave.
 

On 17/06/05, Mike <mike at jazzitis.uklinux.net> wrote:
> Overwhelmed by the rush of advice (lol), I tried again simply following
> the guidance on the RH website about installing for dual boot - no
> attempts to alter anything, the installation pages telling me it would
> boot from hda and install everything FC4 including boot directory on
> hdb, and got exactly the same result. When I reboot it goes straight
> into W98 without any options shown on the way.
> 
> To recap, I have a single cpu, two hdds (1 x 60GB with W98 = hda, 1 x
> 80GB with, I hope, FC4 workstation = hdb) & 384 MB RAM. I am installing
> from 4 CDs downloaded with stenz-torrent before burning. The Anaconda
> check showed them as OK.
> 
> Any ideas, even a little comment from anyone, would be welcome.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
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