Multi-boot question, Grub

Right now, I have a dual-boot system with Win98 and RedHat 9. Jerry
Pournelle ([url]http://www.jerrypournelle.com[/url] for those of you who aren't
familiar with him.) is upgrading and looking for a home for the old
box. I'm going to be getting it, eventually. It's currently set up
with XP, probably professional. What I want to do is move my current
drive over as a second hard drive and set up Grub to boot all three
systems. That way, I can use some old DOS programs and games that may
not run under XP. What I'd like to know is the best way to do this.
I have the install CDs for RedHat, so I could "reinstall" and just
have it (I think) re-do Grub for me. From what I can gather, the 98
system wouldn't even "see" the XP drive, but that's not a problem
because it couldn't understand the file structure anyway. Does
anybody have any info, or a pointer to Usefull Information?

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On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:30:44 +0000, Joe Zeff wrote:
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> Right now, I have a dual-boot system with Win98 and RedHat 9. Jerry
> Pournelle ([url]http://www.jerrypournelle.com[/url] for those of you who aren't
> familiar with him.) is upgrading and looking for a home for the old
> box. I'm going to be getting it, eventually. It's currently set up
> with XP, probably professional. What I want to do is move my current
> drive over as a second hard drive and set up Grub to boot all three
> systems. That way, I can use some old DOS programs and games that may
> not run under XP. What I'd like to know is the best way to do this.
> I have the install CDs for RedHat, so I could "reinstall" and just
> have it (I think) re-do Grub for me. From what I can gather, the 98
> system wouldn't even "see" the XP drive, but that's not a problem
> because it couldn't understand the file structure anyway. Does
> anybody have any info, or a pointer to Usefull Information?[/color]

Move the XP drive, intact, without modification, to the slave position on
the first IDE controller, or the master position on the second IDE
controller. Install your present drive as the master, on the first IDE
controller. Boot to Linux, and as root, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf, and add
a stanza for Windows XP as such;

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

This will show up in grub's menu, the next time you boot. Your original
Win98 will boot from your present Windows stanza, as it does now, and XP
will boot from the new stanza.


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imotgm
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month or two, but never lost."

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:43:23 GMT, imotgm
<imotgm_REM@invalid.yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
>This will show up in grub's menu, the next time you boot. Your original
>Win98 will boot from your present Windows stanza, as it does now, and XP
>will boot from the new stanza.[/color]

Thanx! I'd gotten the impression from the grub documentation that if
I had the XP drive second, the only way to make it bootable would be
to hide the other drive completely.

--
Joe Zeff
The Guy With the Sideburns

--
Joe Zeff
The Guy With the Sideburns
Kill as many as you can; I have a morbid love of excess.
[url]http://www.lasfs.org[/url] [url]http://home.earthlink.net/~sidebrnz[/url]
[url]http://www.lasfs.org[/url] [url]http://home.earthlink.net/~sidebrnz[/url]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:32:46 +0000, Joe Zeff wrote:
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> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:43:23 GMT, imotgm
> <imotgm_REM@invalid.yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>
>>This will show up in grub's menu, the next time you boot. Your original
>>Win98 will boot from your present Windows stanza, as it does now, and XP
>>will boot from the new stanza.[/color]
>
> Thanx! I'd gotten the impression from the grub documentation that if
> I had the XP drive second, the only way to make it bootable would be
> to hide the other drive completely.[/color]

My drives are in removable drive bays. Just for "play" purposes, I put
Windows drives on /dev/hdc, /dev/hde, and /dev/hdg, put stanzas in for
each, and all booted as if they were on /dev/hda, and all of the Windows
partitions, on all drives, were accessable from the running version. Win98
can not see NTFS, so the test installs were all on FAT32 partitions. Two
of the drives had Win98, Win2K as dual boot, and one had Win2K only, so I
was able to boot five separate Windows installations. Hiding a partition
is only necessary, if two Windows installations are present on two primary
partitions on the same hard drive.

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imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."