[Win98/Natty test install] Re: Grub not working

[Tony Pursell]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 14:13 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 05:18 PM, chris wrote:
> ...
> > Agreed, and when I think this through a bit further, I have never tried
> > to detect a 98 partition with grub 2.  Only grub 1
> > might throw 98 onto a partition this after noon and see what happens.
> > Regards Chris
> 
> Out of curiosity & because I keep lots of old junk around, I decided to
> give this a try. I have an old Sony 866Mhz/384MB machine with a 40GB
> hard drive sitting around, so I . I went back & installed Win98 on it
> (had the original oem CD, but had to find a product key on the internet
> to get it to install). After first checking that Win98 installed
> properly & was working[1], I popped in the most recent Natty 11.04
> liveCD & elected to install at the menu.
> 
> o Installation detects the Win98 install and at the 'Allocate drive
> space' screen shows: 'Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 95/98/Me'. I
> elected this option & press 'Forward'.
> 
> o Next screen shows where I can allocate further drive space
> (Win95/98/Me showing /dev/sda1 (fat32) 18.8 GB, Ubuntu showing /dev/sda2
> (ext4) 21.3 GB) & elect to leave as defaults & press 'Install Now'. Off
> it goes...
> 
> o Correctly detects my location, keyboard, username, password, etc
> |'Forward'
> 
> o Installation complete... 'Restart Now'
> 
> o I get grub menu (version 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3) showing:
> Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-generic
> Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-generic (recovery mode)
> Memory test (memtest86+)
> Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)
> Windows 95/98/Me (on /dev/sda1)
> 
> All looks correct to me.
> 
> o Boot to Ubuntu first to ensure that is working... taking a very
> loooong time, but it's a slow, low memory machine. GDM finally comes up
> & I'm informed that I don't have the hardware to run Unity (expected),
> continue & of course Ubuntu incorrectly determines my monitor & only
> shows the bottom panel. I'm used to this, so I right click the bottom
> panel and add "Main Menu" so that I can properly config the monitor
> using System|Preferences|Monitors - done & I'm now set for 1024x768 @
> 85z. Reboot.
> 
> o This time I boot into "Windows 95/98/Me (on /dev/sda1)" & Win98 boots
> & runs just fine. Reboot.
> 
> o Boot back into Ubuntu & copy boot_info_script055.sh over to the
> machine. Run boot_info_script055.sh - the result is located at:
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/604237/
> 
> $ sudo lshw
> is located at:
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/604240/
> 
> HTH
> 
> [1] I've no idea if WinME uses the same type MBR etc as Win98, but
> figured that it might since Win2K - which I also could have installed -
> went to NT & the boot loader calls for 'Windows 95/98/Me'.
> 
> 
> 

Obviously os-prober found your ME. Dave's did not. That may be because
it runs as part of the install.  

Anyway, it shows what is required to boot ME, so 40_custom should be

http://paste.ubuntu.com/604247/

if the device names (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda) are correct for Dave.

Good work, NoOp!

Tony