Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58559
Rebooting from RH7.2 Causes Win98se Freezing
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:39:06 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686; Nav) Description of problem: After rebooting from RH7.2., I try to start Win98se, but somehow it freezes. This problem doesn't occur if I reboot the machine from FreeBSD 4.4. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Turning on the computer 2.LILO menu -> RH7.2 3.login as root, and shut it down by using the syntax "shutdown -r now" 4. LILO menu -> Win98se Actual Results: There is a message "Starting Windows 98" and the computer stops working. The machine has to be turned off by pressing the power button. Win98se then can boot normally Expected Results: It should be that I can boot to Win98se normally even after rebooting from RH7.2 Additional info: Machine: Sony PCG-F490, RAM 256 Mb. 3 O/S: RH7.2, FreeBSD 4.4, Win98se Having tried another linux distribution with the kernel 2.2.19, I never experienced such problem.
Does this work better using grub instead of lilo?
This is the last news that I experienced before I switched to another distribution: Apparently the problem wasn't LILO, as I experienced the same problem when I used GRUB. I guess the source of problem is from rebooting procedure. There might be one or more program that isn't properly shut down.
Based on that, I'm almost willing to bet it's a bios bug of some sort, but without hardware, it's hard to say