Help with dual booting Win98/Red Hat 7.3

I am running Red Hat 7.3 and Win98 on two hard drives. hda has win98 and hdd has Red Hat 7.3.

I want to set up grub to allow me to boot into Win98. I am a Newbie so I would lov to be walked though it.

gravy,

I need to know which partition is the linux root(/) in hdd. Just out of curiosity, what do you have on hdb and hdc. From what you are telling me, you have four hard drives. Is this correct?

bp

I assume that /dev/hda1 is your actual Windows partition. If so, try the following: Start up GRUB (i.e. boot you computer), go to the command line and type the following two commands exactly as shown here:
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
boot

If that works, just add the following to your grub.conf:
title win98
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

Of course, you can replace win98 with whatever you want. I'm not sure which characters that are special in grub.conf, though. Just don't use anything too weird, like non-ASCII characters or so.

Sorry I was not clear I will try again.

I have two hard drives. Tried adding the above but it did not work.

IDE
hda Win98 SE

hdd Red Hat 7.3 [default instal]
Contents of the grub conf file

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdd2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hdd
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdd2
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
title Windows 98 SE
root (hd1,0)

From what your grub.conf file is telling me, you have FOUR drives. The last disk/second partition contains Redhat, second disk/first partition contains Win98 SE. I need to know exactly what you have in your hard drives. Do you have a boot partition? If so, which drive is it in? My guess is that it's the first hard drive, first partition. I'm guessing all of this based on your grub.conf file. If you want me to help, I really need to know EXACTLY what your hardware is like.

For now, try this:

Code:

---

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdd2
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img

title Windows 98 SE
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

---

bp

I have two physical disk.

The following is the partition info for fdisk -l

/dev/hdd1 * 1 102 51376+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdd2 = 103 15343 7681464 83 LINUX
/dev/hdd3 = 15344 16383 524160 83 Linux swap

Second disk.

/dev/hda1 = 1 1244 9992398 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

I have the Win95 as the primary/master and the Linux drive as Secondary/slave.


In the bios I select boot device as drive 1

Hope that helps!
*Thanks

Try this. This should now work.

Code:

---

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd3,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
root (hd3,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdd2
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img

title Windows 98 SE
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

---

Tell me if this works or doesn't work.

bp

Did not work! Gave me a Non System disk or disk error.

This all seems really, really strange. What bpark gave you was virtually the same as what I gave you, and thus both _should_ have worked without a problem. Deeming from your grub.conf, it seems that your BIOS might be switching the drive numbers for some strange reason.
Could you go to your GRUB command line (press c at boot time), and post back the output of these commands:

Code:

---

find /msdos.sys
find /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3

---

If "find /msdos.sys" doesn't work, try it with uppercase letters instead.
You can also try this:

Code:

---

chainloader (hd1,0)+1

---

I tried

Code:

---

chainloader (hd1,0)+1

---

amd it said booting Win98 for a while and to do the 3 finger salute to reboot.

Will try the find thing.