Other Help Topics :: dual-booting on second harddrive



First off, I'm very new to Linux.  DSL is the only linux distro I've ever used.

I installed DSL without much trouble to my harddrive.  It is a full debian-type install.  I later added a second harddrive onto the computer.  This drive has a windows 98 install on it.  After mounting /mnt/hdb1, I can view all of the files from the drive without trouble.  I can't seem to boot into windows, though.  I'm using GRUB as my bootloader.  There is only 1 partion on hdb, and the boot flag is set.  These are some of the GRUB entries I've tried:

Code Sample
title Windows
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

title Windows2
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1


I've also used the 'edit' command within grub to change the format a little.  Nothing seems to work.  With the first example I posted, "title Windows," when I boot, the screen says:
Quote
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type is fat, partion type 0xb
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot


Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
It looks alright up front.. but did you check http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Grub anyways?
That's where I got most of how I set up the windows part in menu.lst.  DSL installed grub for me on installation.  It boots DSL fine.
Looking closer at your first post... I see you are using win98 - so I am going to fire some questions in regard to that.

1. did you add another hard drive for DSL?
2. if not, what did you have previously on the disk that DSL now occupies - what was the partition table like?

My reason for asking these is that win98 uses ms-dos which will assign the drive letters automatically (i.e. c:\ to the first fat partition it finds).

If 1 or 2 applies to you, you might have to hide a partition during boot, or rearrange the drives.

Did you also try changing the arrangement/boot sequence of the hard drives in your bios?

Of course, all of this might not apply at all :P
The computer originally had windows 95 on it.  I used cfdisk from the DSL liveCD to delete everything on the partion table (I think there was just one partion on it).  I then made a bootable linux partion and installed DSL to that.  I had another computer with windows98 on it.  I took the harddrive out of the win98 comp, and installed it as a slave onto the DSL comp.
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