[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Is Screwing Up Windows ;-)

[Jaime Villela]

Problem:  I'm trying to install Linux on my system and it keeps screwing
up the partitioning so that Win98 will no longer boot.

Setup:  One 4 GB hard drive has Win98 along with seperate partitions for
swap, data and applications.  One 1 GB holds both linux swap and root
partitions.

Description:  I used to have Caldera 2.3 on my linux drive and both OSes
booted with no problems.  Last night I decided to wipe away Caldera and
give Mandrake 7.0 a chance (bad move).  The installation went okay but
when I tried to boot to Win98 (via Boot Magic) I got a "non-system disk"
error.  The error would only go away when I deleted the Linux partitions
on the second drive.  Just to make sure, I then tried to install
StormLinux 2000.  Same deal.

Has anyone else had this problem?  Does anyone else have two OSes on two
drives?  If so, how did you do it?

Jaime Villela
jvillela at airmail.net