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

[chris]

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
<snip>
> 
> [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'.
> 
> 
> 

Ok, just to follow through a bit further I did an install of win98 on a
10gig partition on a old 386 I had lying around.
The disk is a 40gig matrox.
then I installed 8.04 grub I.  Picked up the original 10gig partition.
use the partitioner to create a root & swap and installed.

grub picked up and correctly identified the win96 partition as win98/me,
and both partitions are booting from grub no problems.

Go figure..............
About to do an in place dist upgrade to 10.04 and see what happens to
grub.