[wellylug] multi-boot issue - warning slightly OT

Bill Christiansen bill.christiansen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 08:18:45 NZDT 2006


Don't want this thread to get too OT with regard to non linux OS's but
thought someone may have a quick answer. I added linux (pclinuxos) to
a system that was already dual booting win98se & win2k (both fat32).
All three OS's are booting OK but I think the partition table may have
got slightly corrupted as win98 is now showing an extra zero length D
drive and has moved win2k to F. I originally used hda5 for the linux
root but had trouble getting lilo to map it so changed it to a primary
partition on hda3 with the swap on extended hda5:

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1         974     7823623+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2             975        2922    15647310    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3   *        2923        4746    14651280   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            4747        4870      996030    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            4747        4870      995998+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Anyone know how to get rid of the erroneous D drive in win98?




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