PROBLEMS WITH RUNNING LINUX ON SECOND MASTER HARD DRIVE AND WIN98

Cesar G. Dubois Carranza (cesard@ibw.com.ni)
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:55:11 -0600 (CST)


Hello everyone!!!

Sorry about asking but to be honest I don't know how to solve this. I have
windows 98 running alright on my first master IDE hard drive. I also
installled linux on another IDE hard drive, but now I want to have it as
second master hard drive.
I am trying to run windows 98, and optional from a menu at startup, I
would like to run Linux (I have Red-Hat version 6.0).
I have followed all the directions shown in how-to's and mini-how-to's
regarding multiple operative systems running on the same computer, but so
far I have been unsuccesful.

I am able to boot windows 98 and linux, but when booting linux I get the
following error (if I boot linux as a first master hard disk, I get no
error, but if I boot linux from windows 98 as a second master hard disk
I do get the error):

*******

Checking root filesystems
Parallelizing fsck version 1.12 (9-Jul--98)
[/sbin/fsck.ext2] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/hda1
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda1
/dev/hda1:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), the superblock is
corrupt, and might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock e2fsck
-b 8193 <device>

*********
I have modified lilo.com, and it looks something like this:

boot=/dev/hdc
map=/boot//map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
#linux stanza
delay=100
root=current
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc1
read-only
#end linux stanza
#windows 98 stanza
other=/dev/hda1
table=/dev/hda
label=win98
#end windows 98 stanza
*******

When trying to run lilo to compile it, I get the following error:

warning:/dev/hdc is not on the first disk
Added linux *
first sector on /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

Any ideas are very welcome. I appreciate your help. Thank you.

Cesar

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