Re: Booting win98 from an extended partition

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: "Ingo Korb" <address@hidden>
Subject: Booting win98 from an extended partition
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 02:24:39 +0100

> I'm trying to use GRUB 0.5.96.1 to boot Win98SE from an extended partition 
> (drive G: in win98, /dev/sda7 in linux), but the boot loader just gives the 
> standard "invalid system" message. Booting the same partition works fine 
> with the OS/2 boot manager.

  I guess that OS/2 boot manager uses some magic that I don't know
yet. Do you know if there is any free boot loader which can boot Win*
from an extended partition? If there is, we will be able to steal code
(or at least an idea) from it. (Note that I use the term "free" in GNU
sense here, that is, source code is freely available.)

Okuji