Hoary 5.04 - Grub and DOS 6.22/Win98SE

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:47:31PM +0200, Thadeus Laufer wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have two harddisks in my computer.
> The first of them containing: DOS 6.22, Win98SE und another different
> Win98SE.
> All of them were installed on their own partition (C:). Two of these
> partitions were always invisible, the third visible and active for
> booting the system. Using another system I had to switch the staus from
> invisiblle to visible - for example DOS 6.22 - and from visible to
> invisible - for example Win98SE. So Icould use all of the three OS.
> Then I installed Ubuntu in an own partition.
> Grub did recognize all - three - Operating Systems and was installed in
> the MBR of the first harddisk. 
> Booting with Grub - with selection menu from Grub: Linux, DOS, Win98,
> Win98 - results in:
> - Linux ok.
> - DOS - showing: starting MS-DOS on screen - and nothing else
> - Win98SE - only one/the same Version of Win98Se is always started 
> Why this?
> 
> Thadeus
> 
> *****************
> fdisk -l shows:
> Platte /dev/hda: 81.9 GByte, 81964302336 Byte
> 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 9964 Zylinder
> Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
> 
> Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
> /dev/hda1 1221 2941 13823932+ f W95 Erw. (LBA)
> /dev/hda2 777 1220 3566430 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda3 * 1 261 2096451 16 Verst. FAT16
> /dev/hda4 320 776 3670821 1b Verst. W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda5 1221 1475 2048256 b W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda6 1476 2176 5630751 b W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda7 2177 2941 6144831 83 Linux
> 
> Partitionstabelleneinträge sind nicht in Platten-Reihenfolge
> 
> Platte /dev/hdb: 30.7 GByte, 30738677760 Byte
> 16 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 59560 Zylinder
> Einheiten = Zylinder von 1008 × 512 = 516096 Bytes
> 
> Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 54482 59560 2559816 f W95 Erw. (LBA)
> /dev/hdb5 54482 56513 1024096+ b W95 FAT32
> /dev/hdb6 56514 58544 1023592+ b W95 FAT32
> /dev/hdb7 58545 59560 512032+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
> 
> **********************
> menu.lst (Grub) shows:
> 
> default 0
> timeout 10
> 
> title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-686
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro quiet splash
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-686
> savedefault
> boot
> 
> title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-686 (recovery mode)
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro single
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-686
> savedefault
> boot
> 
> title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-386
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hda7 ro quiet splash
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386
> savedefault
> boot
> 
> title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-386 (recovery mode)
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hda7 ro single
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386
> savedefault
> boot
> 
> title Ubuntu, kernel memtest86+
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
> savedefault
> boot
> 
> ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
> 
> # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the
> Debian
> # ones.
> title Other operating systems:
> root
> 
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux
> OS
> # on /dev/hda4
> title Windows 95/98/Me
> root (hd0,3)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux
> OS
> # on /dev/hda3
> title MS-DOS 5.x/6.x/Win3.1
> root (hd0,2)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux
> OS
> # on /dev/hda2
> title Windows 95/98/Me
> root (hd0,1)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> 
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You probably need to have grub make the system think that Windows (or
DOS) is on the first partition of the first hard drive.  Grub has a
"map" function which can do this. I use the following in my menu.lst (my
Windows 98SE partition is really hd1,0 and grub maps it to hd0,0):

title           Windows 98se
map (hd0,0) (hd1,0)
map (hd1,0) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify    (hd1,0)
makeactive

Grub can also make partitions invisible to DOS with "hide".  See the
grub info pages for full details.