Ron Watson wrote:
Actually, if you have your W2K installation CD you do not need to make any additional recovery disk - just boot from the CD and through several screens choose the recovery console (you have to remember the admin password, though). As for configuring the boot loader for the multiple boot I would suggest another decision (wasn't discussed, as far as I remember):Maxim Eremeev wrote:
Thanks, will make a recovery disk, test it, try to get w2k back up, get linux back up.Ron Watson wrote:
I just installed fedora 2, the fedora 3 anaconda would crash when it looked at myWell, it is relatively easy to restore the Win2K boot loader. You just need its installation disc, then you boot from it into recovery console and
partitions, put in 2.6.9, then updated last night to 2.6.10.... I have fat32 and ntfs
partitions, w98 and w2k installed but oopsie, i told it to put the boot loader on
main disk and w2k won't load. tried to mount them and doesn't know about ntfs.
How do I add ntfs support to kernel or restore the windoze boot loader to "C:"?
fixboot
fixmbr
should do the trick.
However then you will need to reinstall your grub through recovery disc, and I suggest you to search through the posts here as the problem of dual (and even triple) boot was discussed several times.
Good luck,
Maxim.
As for ntfs support... went to /boot/config-2.6.10-1.9_FC2 and it says auto generated...
auto generated by what? Noticed it does not set ntfs support, e.g.
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
so is it "safe" to add
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y
to the config file, will it just get overwritten at next boot, or what?
Ron;
1. Now, as I can understand, you can boot just into Fedora and you have its boot loader installed onto hda. So boot it and in the terminal type something like:
dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 of=/bootsect.lnx
Note that I put hda here as you mentioned that BL was installed there. Move the file bootsect.lnx onto diskette.
2. Boot from W2K CD and do all this funny stuff with
fixboot
fixmbr
3. Now you should be able to load your W2K installation. Go there and find where the file boot.ini is located. Copy the bootsect.lnx to the same location. Normally it's just C:\, but as you have Win98 it could be E:\, D:\ or whatever where your W2K resides. Add the following line to boot.ini:
%path to bootsect.lnx%="Fedora" (it could be D:\bootsect.lnx="Fedora" for example)
4. Restart and choose Fedora from the boot menu - see whether it does the trick.
It worked for me when I used FC1 on a dual boot machine - haven't tried it since that time, though, as I quitted all this multiple boot stuff.
Any way you won't risk anything: in the worst case you'll just have to do what you'd do without those manipulations - boot from Fedora rescue disc and try to figure out how to make all your systems bootable. In the best case you will get the so much desired multiple boot system right away.
Good luck (send me a feedback, if possible, as I wonder if this trick still can be useful :) )
Maxim.
