Bug 22744
| Summary: | Dos won't boot after install 7.0 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jim Langston <jim.langston> |
| Component: | lilo | Assignee: | Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:47:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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What does the partition table look like (in effect, is the DOS partition /dev/hda1 or somewhere else, and are all the linux partitions primary, or logocals in an extended, etc)? I have 1 15G disk, the first partition is win98, which I created at 7.5G (to stay under 1024). fdisk (linux) shows the /dev/hda1 to be a msdos partition. After that I created /boot swap and / with the rest of the disk. When it didn't boot win98, I reloaded and then created /boot swap /usr /home /, but was still unable to boot win98. LILO created the graphical login. I was unable to boot win98 off CD, so I'm not sure if Linux is in an extended partition. I have a similar situation. I have my win98 partition on /dev/hdb1 (primary, pre-1024th cyl) & my all linux paritions /dev/hda. I can't seem to boot windows no matter where i put it(ie. i copied it to an extended /dev/hda partition & configured it & tried to boot & it it hangs at the Loading dos screen. device info: /dev/hda :: 45gig IBM UATA/100 7200 /dev/hdb :: 8.4gig IBM UATA/33 5400 mobo: post 1998 (gateway/intel 440BX/ 400Mhz) is there some special way to boot windows other than ---------------- other=/dev/hdb1 lable=dos /sbin/lilo ---------------- ?? is there a limit on the size of the windows partition it can boot? i've tried: compact & linear compact & lba32 just linear just lba32 ALL WITH THE SAME RESULTS(hanging at LILO) Does this work better in more recent releases? Closing due to inactivity. If you have further information, please reopen this bug. Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
After installing Windows 98, checking system, everything is fine. After installing 7.0, everything with 7.0 works, boots fine. But, when trying to boot Windows, nothing happens and freezes with disk spinning. Unable to boot Windows with floppy or CD. Deleted the Linux partitions via expert mode using fdisk. Windows comes up just fine. LILO - writes to disk and can get graphical interface for changing OS, linux or dos. I did fdisk /mbr to get back to a clean mbr, then re-installed 7.0 again. Same issue. System: E6557 - Fujitsu 192MB 1 internal drive - 15GB Windows on c: w/7.5G partition Linux - everything else