[wellylug] multi-boot issue - warning slightly OT

[Geraint M. Jones]

No, your table is ok the D: is /dev/hda3   *        2923        4746
14651280   83  Linux

Win98 HAS to boot from C: so what it does is calls its own disk C: and
the true boot drive becomes D: (unless that's your cdrom) and I assume
you used to use win2k's boot loader ? that will be why that used to be
d:

I don't know of any way to hide the d: but atleast you know why its
there now ;-)

Geraint Jones
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-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz
[mailto:wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Bill
Christiansen
Sent: Monday, 30 January 2006 8:19 a.m.
To: WellyLUG
Subject: [wellylug] multi-boot issue - warning slightly OT

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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