I have an 80 gig Maxtor hard drive I am learning more about as I try to
use it. Found out most of my troubles were caused by leaving the bios
set at AUTO which set the hard drive standard translation instead of
LBA. ECS didn't seem to mind but win98 no way. The VIA chipset seems
confused as to what to set it at at each boot, intel chipset at least
seems to stay consistent. Set the bios at manual and LBA and win98 can
now function.

Anyhow I am trying to load ECS and Win98 on this drive giving each half
the space. Given the limitations of windows fdisk, I low level quick
formatted this drive to make the boot sector clean, set the bios to
LBA, booted ECS install and first installed Boot manager in front. Then
a 1004 meg primary for ECS, a 39 gig primary for win98, and a 38 gig
logical for JFS. Installed ECS on the 1004 meg primary. Formatted the
39gig primary with windows, then found out that ECS IDs a bootable
primary volume as FAT16! So using windows fdisk, deleted the 39gig
primary, then recreated it as a DOS fat32 primary partition. Formatted
successfully and installed win98. Both OS's work fine in their spaces.

The problem is that LVM does not recognize that partition as bootable
even though LVM created the partition and volume as bootable and it has
a letter. It even correctly reports it as FAT32. I cannot add it to the
Boot Manager menu, or set it as startable for the next boot. I didn't
think it is a 1024 cylinder limit because I've done the same setup on a
40 gig drive (each OS gets 20 gig) and it works fine there.

So for now from win98 fdisk I can set the OS/2 partition as active and
boot os2 next, but must boot a windows floppy or CD to switch from ECS
back to windows. I was hoping not to have to use another boot manager.
Is there something I can do to fix this?

    7 meg pri --> Boot Manager
 1004 meg pri --> HPFS ECS11 fp3 installed  C:
39139 meg pri --> FAT32 win98se             M:
38008 meg log --> JFS volume                D:

Franklin



		
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