Re: Win98 boot changes linux partition type from 0x83

[Mario Klebsch]

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On Tuesday, 19. March 2002 13:58, D.A. Beauregard wrote:
> I use grub-0.91; I wrote stage1 on MBR, it finds stage2 and menu.lst
> in /boot/grub on /dev/hda1, and I successfully boot into either linux
> or windows 98:
>
> /dev/hda1 linux
> /dev/hda2 linux swap
> /dev/hda3 fat32-lba
>
> However, every time I use windows 98, the partition type of /dev/hda1
> gets changed to 0x93; when I reboot grub attempts stage2 and fails to
> read menu.lst (gives grub> prompt), and I must use parttype before
> grub will get through to reading menu.lst. Any suggestions?

Do you hide the linux partition, when booting windows? Adding 0x10 to
the partition type is what hide does. It should not be necessary to
hide a linux partition prior to booting windows.

But AFAIK, GRUB should not have any problems with a linux partition
carrying the wrong partition type, nor should linux have.

73, Mario
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