Hello all, I have a 17 GB hard drive and want to have the three OS installed. I have tried all the ways, I have been able to have Linux and Windows 98 running at a time, or WinNT and Windows 98 at the same time, but as soon as I install Windows NT 4.0 I get the following error message: STOP: 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE and no matter what I do everything but NT will work (I just learned that it might be the ATAPI version that was fixed after NT SP 4.0, I will be trying this today). I have a free loader walled OSL2000 that detects what OS have and can boot NT or Linux or WIn98. Evidently the problem lies on NT. Having the NT Emergency Repair Disk didn't do any good. I created 4 partitions (sizes not exact but close enough): 1. 2000 MB Windows 98, FAT 32 2. 4000 MB Windows NT, NTFS 3. 15 MB Linux Boot 4. Extended Partition with: l1. 4000 MB Common Swap disk (Win95 FAT 16) l2. 128 MB Linux swap partition l3. 6000 MB Linux Native HELP!

This sounds REALLY familiar. We have had 0 (zero) luck with anything but using MS-NT on the 1st partition of the drive, after that, install the rest on the other partitions, the linux partitions should not be changed, simply swap the windows and NT partitions. After this, go to www.freshmeat.net and download a boot manager called GAG, that will allow all 3 to live and be bootable. We have successfully installed NT, Win98SE, RedHatv6.1, and Caldera OpenLinux on one system, even to the point of 2 different NT installs on separate partitions. Hope this helps, good luck.

The problem was in fact the ATAPI driver shipped originally with Windows NT 4.0. What I did at last was (starting with an empty HD): 1. Create a 2 GB partition 2. Install Windows 98 SE 3. Install a boot manager called OSL2000 and hide the first partition 4. Start Windows NT 4.0 installation, it will recognize my 17 GB HD as an 8 GB HD, I created a 4 GB partition, formatted in NTFS and install it there. 5. The trick was to install Windows NT Service Pack 6; that allowed NT to recognize HDs bigger that 8 GB. 6. At this point the boot manager let me run either OS. Then I installed Ret Hat Linux 6.1 As you can see, I could install NT in a second partition and ended up with my HD partitioned with the scheme detailed in my first post. Thanks.