Trouble getting to Windows with Lilo

[Marshmallowman]

when you change you boot drive in your bios the ordering of your drives can change, hde1 may not be the right drive....But I don't that is your problem.

win 98 is very inflexible about which drives it boots and runs from. it will usualy like to be the primary boot drive...C: (hda1)
(are they primary drives or extended partitions?)

eg set the drive you originally installed win98 form as the boot drive and put lilo on that.
If you installed win98 on say the D: drive and have added drives since then, win 98 may be terminally confused until you remove the extra drives

I have been through the win 98 drive blues before...it may be a lot easier to go to a better OS.

win NT,2k and XP are a lot more flexible, and all those kind drive Identification problems do not exist on them...

[leech]

Though of course with WinXP you'll definitely need some sort of rescue disk, since it will copy over your lilop boot record. I believe how I lined it up for you it should work, since like I said, setting the promise controller in your bios to be the boot device will make linux rename the drives, and you'll have to have to boot disk to run lilo again with the correct drive identifications.

Leech

[Marshmallowman]

yes a working linux boot disk is your friend, make sure you have a working one before playing around.

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by Colin Morey
right, your cat /proc/swaps looks fine, apart from one thing, you're best off setting the priority to -1 on both, and i can't find out immediatly, best thing to do i think would be to grep for the command "swapon" in /etc
(grep -ri swapon /etc/*) and paste the output here, (or wait until i can get access to a mandrake box, (only 8.0 though)

You mean set priority to 1 - you can't set it to negative numbers. Anyway, to do this edit /etc/fstab, find the lines which represent the swap (they have the word 'swap' in them), and change the word 'defaults' in those lines to 'pri=1'. To make the change effective immediately, do 'swapoff -a ; swapon -a' as root (this assumes you're not using enough memory to need the swap).

[TnT]

Thanks for all the help guys. I think I'll just get it so that I won't have to use windows, and dual booting from BIOS when I need to until I get a nice Lian-Li removable drive tray (the cheapo one I have now messed up one of my drives a while back).

[TnT]

Okay solved the problem by moving both my OS drives to the mobo (Linux is master) and reinstalled Linux (there were some funky problems and I wanted to redo partitioning anyways). Everything works great now.

[The PIT]

What I want to do is add linux to the boot.ini under XP. I've done this in the past using a programme called bootpart but can't remember how I did it.
THis is the layout.

Master Disk one Crive winme E:F:G:
Slave Disk Two D:Winxp
On promise controller tx2 (Cdroms don't like working of this under XP)
Master Linux.

Now I tell Linux to make this linux disk bootable and then point the boot.ini to this but I forgotten how.

If I just let Linux create it's own menu when the drive gets stuffed which it's loaded on you can't boot into 98 or Xp. Okay fdisk /mbr would work but it won't if you upgrade linux in the future.