On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:41, frank nelson wrote:
--- JB <yonaton@localnet.com> wrote:
I think I'll do the simplest thing as another suggested and just do a couple things with the BIOS whenever I need to boot into windoze.
Time to start over. You have not told us how much memory you have in your box. Win98 can't see more than 768 MB. If you have more than that, Win98 will report "Not enough memory" which just means it's totally confused.
Only 512MB, so should be okay.
Next, if the memory is OK, you should be able to install Win98 directly to the second drive, jumpered as it is. If you worry about the SUSE drive, the most you need to do is unplug the 4 pin Molex, which will make the SUSE drive invisible to the system. Then just insert the Win98 CD, and do a normal installation.
After the Win98 installation is complete, and you've checked it's ability to boot, turn off the computer, and re-plug the Molex on the SUSE drive. When you boot, you'll get the grub boot screen with SUSE as the only boot choice. Boot to SUSE, and as root, add the following to /boot/grub/menu.lst. You can copy/paste it from here.
title Windows 98 rootnoverify (hd1,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) makeactive chainloader +1
Save the file, and reboot. Your grub menu will now give you a choice between SUSE and Win98. Select windows, and it will boot, without having to mess about in your BIOS.
Now *this* sounds easier even than doing the bios thing. Thanks Frank! I'll let everyone know how it turns out. JB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org