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

[Gary Maltzen]

The non-Win95-standard partitioning (multiple primary partitions) of your
Linux disk might be causing Win95 to choke; I would have suggested this more
*conventional* approach...

  hdb1 - /boot
  hdb2 - extended
  hdb5 - swap
  hdb6 - /
  hdb7 - /home
  hdb8 - /usr
  hdb9 - /opt

Also, make certain that hdb partitions are a type Win95 doesn't recognize
(i.e., 83-linux, 82-swap) as the DOS convention is to assign drive letters
(starting with C:) in this order:

   drive 0 primary partition
   drive 1 primary partition
   drive 2 ...
   ...
   drive 0 logical partitions
   drive 1 logical partitions
   drive 2 ...

~Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: <jmmills at avana.net>
To: ale at ale.org


> 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?


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