[KLUG Members] Window98 and Redhat 7.1 dual boot on HP

[Jon Towne]

On Sunday 31 March 2002 21:45, you wrote:
> Anyone got any hints/tips on getting Windows98 to boot after a RedHat
> 7.1 install on a Hewlett Packard?
>
> Hewlett Packard 466mhz
> 64 meg ram
> 12.1 gig hd
> cdrom
> floppy
>
> Partitioned with:
> 	6 gig for Windows 98 (actually shrunk from entire drive)
> 	6 gig for Linux including /, /boot, and swap (redhat 7.1 installed and
> working)
> 	Lilo installed in mbr
>
> Windows 98 tries to boot but drops to a seemingly crippled dos.
>
> This is on a friends spare machine. If we cannot get windows back it
> will not be missed too badly. I would like to try getting it back as a
> learning exercise.


I just found out in my partition table problem that windows won't boot if 
there is "empty" space in front of "c".  Don't know if this applies in your 
case.  Jon