Re: Unable to dual boot using LILO nor GRUB with Win98

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com>]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Mike Watson wrote:

> I've had a common problem with Caldera 3.1, Mandrake 8.1 and RH7.2. I cannot dual
> boot for Win98 and Linux.
> 
> The HD layout is:
> 
> /dev/hda	Win98SE (18GB) boot partition /dev/hda1
> /dev/hdb	Linux (1.6GB) /boot  /home
> /dev/hdc	CDROM
> /dev/hdd	Linux (8GB) swap(512MB) /  

Ok, Nothing strange here.

> The PC is a homebrew running a AMD Duron (800MHz), 192MB memory.
> 
> The common lilo problem is lilo hangs at boot showing only "LI".  I can boot
> using a boot diskette.  With GRUB, the one time it was written to MBR (failed
> continuously to write a MBR afterward,) filled the screen with "@" until I
> manually rebooted.
> 
> Previous, before I'd installed /dev/hdd and with RH 7.0, I could dual boot with
> lilo, not now.  I currently have RH7.2 loaded and have installed all the updates
> and upgraded the kernel to 2.4.9-13.
> 
> Anyone give me any hints way I can't dual boot?

Show your grub.conf and what steps you took to install it. I do this all of 
the time it works just fine when done correctly with most hardware.

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