Re: Erp. Setting up a dual boot, installing windows AFTER Linux

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>]

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 21:40, Damacus wrote:
> After rebuilding the FAT32 setup in hda1 with mkdosfs and copying the contents
> of a Win98 CD to it, I rebooted with a Win98 boot diskette and installed 
> Windows from C:\win98cd, where I had copied the files to.  All of this went 
> by without a hitch.  After this first stage of installation finishes, I remove
> the boot diskette and reboot the system, expecting to be taken to the "hardware
> detection" phase of the Windows setup, however, it stops at a message which
> reads "Disk I/O error.  Press any key to continue" or something similar. 

I don't know if this still works, but it's worth a try.

Make sure you have alternate means of booting to Linux first; it looks
like you've got that part taken care of.  Then, boot from your Win98 CD
and run "FDISK /MBR".  Reboot, and make sure Windows boots.  Then, boot
back to Linux, re-LILO, and make sure you can boot to Windows from LILO.


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