From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: I have two disks: The first one is my OLD Primary/Master disk, with Windows 98 SE and RedHat 8.0. Boot is choosen through Lilo. The second one is my NEW Primary/Master (the preceding one being now the Primary/Slave), with Windows XP and RedHat 9.0. Both disks have the same organisations: First partition is Linux-/boot, Second partition is Windows-C:, Other partitions are for Windows or Linux, partitions for Windows being readable from Linux. Total number of partitions is 11 on each disk. When I boot from the BIOS on each disk, it runs correctly. I can do it, on the old one, either by setting back the old disk to IDE0 (Primary/Master), or by asking my BIOS to boot from IDE1 (Primary/Slave). In both cases, Lilo screen is displayed and I can select which system I want to run. I can do it, on the new one, by letting it being IDE0 (Primary/Master), and asking the BIOS to boot from it. On the grub screen which appears, I have added a choice to boot from my old Windows system (so, I have RedHat, Windows XP and Windows 98). This third choice was added by the RedHat installation disk. But I cannot boot any more to Windows 98: The two grub commands (rootnoverify (hd1,1) and chainloader +1) are displayed, and the system halts. I have tried, as suggested in bug #89522, to add one or two map commands, at the beginning, to swap hdba and hdb (of course, changing to rootnoverify (hd0,1)), but the result is the same (my new commands are displayed, but the symptom remains unchanged). So, what should I do? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Version provided during installation How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a disk with Linux & Windows (Windows being on hda2) 2. Switch between them with Lilo 3. Set this disk to Primary/Slave 4. Check that it still run if you ask the BIOS to boot from this disk 5. Add a new disk, with Linux & Windows 6. Switch between them with grub, and add a choice to boot from the old disk, on Windows 7. Try to boot on the old Windows disk with grub. Actual Results: It does not work: System is hanging. Expected Results: System should boot on the old Windows system. Additional info: I have not requested the system to boot from the old Linux RedHat system.
I think this is a limitation in your version of Windows. Try putting it on a primary partition?
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Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.