Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 86121
grub cannot boot windows 98
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:00 EDT
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
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.