[ale] RH6.2/Win95 Disk Confusion - OT?

[jmmills at avana.net]

Hello -

Apologies - (1) this is a Win95 problem resulting from 
Linux installation, and I am clueless with regard to 
Win95 'mangement'. (2) I am not at the machine now, so I 
may be off in some details. (3) This mail is from a web 
tool and may contain HTML.

I am having a problem replacing an old RH4.2-derived 
Linux (2.0.13) hard drive with a new, larger drive and a 
new RH6.2 installation. Linux dual-boots with a really 
crufty Win95 installation which uses all of the 
IDE1/master drive as two DOS partitions. Linux is the 
slave drive on IDE1. Zip-100 and CDROM are on IDE2. 
Motherboard is a low-end 'FDI'.

I partitioned the new drive as follows, with Linux 
'fdisk':
hdb1: /boot  - small boot partition
hdb2: <swap> - Linux swap space
hdb3: /      - Linux root partition
hdb4: [extended, with logicals inside as follows:
    hdb5: /home - Linux
    hdb6: /usr  - Linux
    hdb7: /opt  - Linux ]

Problem:
When I boot Win95, it is quite confused as to the IDE 
devices installed. The Zip drive is not found, but one  
non-accessible hard drive partition appears as D:, the 
'real' D: appears as 'E:', CD drive moves to 'F:', and 
in general confusion reigns.

The BIOS boot finds all the devices just where they 
should be. Linux finds all the devices just where they 
should be.

When I reconnect the old Linux drive, my Win95 devices 
come back more or less where they should.

Another wrinkle: when the system boots, it reports PCI 
interrupt assignments as:
 IRQ 14 (can'remember device)
 IRQ 9  (IDE - Controller?)
 IRQ 9  PS-2 mouse
 IRQ 9  NIC

I have tried reinstalling the IDE controller patches, 
CDROM and Zip drive - the Win installer can not find the 
Zip drive.

Any Linux/Win dual-gurus out there have any suggestions?

TIA.
 - Mills


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