Bug 86121
| Summary: | grub cannot boot windows 98 | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | marcos <marneo> | ||||||
| Component: | grub | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||||||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2003-08-06 22:06:07 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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Could you attach /boot/grub/grub.conf and /boot/grub/device.map? Created attachment 90606 [details]
grub config file
this is what the file had in it had to type it in windows notepad to send
Created attachment 90607 [details]
device map file
same as above
Unable to reproduce. This looks like it's almost certainly Windows not liking having its drive moved around. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: I have windows 98 on a 10GB HDD. bought an 80GB HDD partitioned it for linux 20GB for / partition 256MB for swap and 200MB for /boot. the 80GB is now the master drive and linux boots fine using GRUB...But When i try to boot Win98 with GRUB the screen goes blank and shows: rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 it stops there...i tried modifying the boot commands to: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 the windows splash screen shows up, and you can hear HDD activity. but the screen goes blank and it stops doing anything why? i can get windows to boot by going into the bios and changing the boot order to boot from my 10GB HDD. but i would like to avoid doing that everytime i want to change the OS i'm working in Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot computer 2.try to boot windows 98 using GRUB Actual Results: screen goes blank then shows: rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 Expected Results: windows 98 should boot Additional info: AMD duron 800,128 MB SDRAM,80GB HDD master,10GB HDD slave, voodoo 3 2000 PCI