DSL & win98

Forum: HD Install
Topic: DSL & win98
started by: a1x

Posted by a1x on July 17 2006,07:38

I can`t setup them working together. If i put dsl with grub inst for booting i cant run win. If i try to reinstall win it writes in mbr and i cant run dsl. May be i should try to find some boot manager coz the options for recognizing windows from dsl dont work ....

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 17 2006,09:06

I seem to remember grub finding my windows installation okay..

Still, you can do what you want manually by editing grub's menu.lst. See the topic in the wiki on how to do that.

See
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Grub >
or follow the post below

Posted by a1x on July 17 2006,10:50

i ve reinsalled everything

and it did run

. I thought on the desktop i can see the info about the free space remaining on my linx part. I ve seen some loader config and i cant get it exactly

Posted by brianw on July 17 2006,14:59

I am assuming 1. you are in linux and have both installed and 2. you still can't get into windows.

In linux
right click on Beaver icon and select run as root
in beaver
click the open file and navigate to /boot/grub and open the file menu.lst
in beaver with the file displayed
scroll to the bottom and make sure there is a section that looks like:
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot
make sure there are no # (pound or number signs) in front of these.
the (hd0,0) means hda1 (the hd0 is hda or first hard disk and the ,0 is the first partition or 1)
you must make sure this matches your windows install (if you installed windows on the main partition this should be good). Most of all make sure the comments (# signs) are removed from in front of each line in that section.

save the file and reboot.

When I installed grub it asked me if I had windows on hda1 but put comments in front of the lines so it would not get recognized.

Posted by sankarv on July 19 2006,06:56

that was a very good explanation brainw