Dual Booting Problems

[Lordmord]

One of my friends call me on the weekend. It seems that he installed linux in his computer, with windows 98 on its too. After the installation, everytime the grub comes on and asks him for each OS he want to go into there seem to be a problem.

If he wants to go to the linux OS, it would started up properly and then it would show a cursor and it would blink and then it would stop blinking, it would stay like that a line in the top left hand cornor of the screen.

If he were to go to Windows 98 OS, it would go to a screen where the first line would be starting windows 98 and then it would ask him to
TYPE THE INTERCEPTER COMMAND (C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)
A:\

He insert his start-up disk, but it has no use.

Below is some addition info:

Total Hard drive size 20 GB
Windows 98 partition 15 gb
LInux partition 4.GB
LInux swap partition 256 mb
RAM 128 RAM
Processor intel 550 mhz

What he want is both linux and windows to work. Or if that isn't possible he want windows to work without formatting.

 

[Veurruckte]

Dualbooting really isn't hard at all. I did it when I was a newb .

It sounds like he hasn't configured X properly, as far as the blinking cursor goes on linux. I'm not sure about the windows problem. Sounds to me like he didn't configure grub correctly.

To learn how to configure everything correctly, use google .

 

[Parky_007]

Try reinstalling linux and congifuring grub properly, or for safety, install it on a floppy disk. If its on a floppy, when the floppy isn't in windows will boot by default, and then with floppy in it will load grub.

As for windows, I havn't a clue, maybe a fresh install of that aswell.

Hope that helps.
Rowan.