Booting from drive 2 causing problems in detection of partition

[msafri]

Hi,
I have two hard drives (1st: 20Gb and 2nd: 4.3Gb). There are 3 fat partitions on the 1st one and 1 fat and linux partitions on the 2nd one. I have got win98 installed on both. When I boot from the second one, the os (both dos and windows) don't correctly detect my 2nd (e: ) partition on drive 1. When in Dos mode, dir'ing on drive e: just displays garbage. In win98, when trying to open drive e:, it says a device attached to the system is not functioning. However windows assigns partition e: as g:, so I'm able to acces it correctly. I wonder what could be possibly wrong as there is no such problem when booting from the 1st drive.

Specs.
1ghz t+bird
mobo Ga-7zxrc
drives: both seagate
partitions type: all fat partitions are Fat32

[Fingers]

Are you using a boot manager, or just changing the boot order in the BIOS?


This isn't an area where I have much experience, but I believe that for the latter to work, you'll have to set that partition "active" to be able to boot from it?