Dual Booting XP & 98 - boot.ini Question
 

Hi All

I need to able to use a piece of software that won't run properly under XP but will with 98. XP is on C: of my main drive which is partitioned into two. I've added a second drive as a slave, unplugged my main drive and installed 98 on the new. When I have them both plugged in so the second drive is slave E:, it just boots to XP without offering 98. I'm told I need to edit my boot.ini, which currently says this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

Presumably I need to add reference to Win98, how do I do this?

TIA

Ben :)

Not 100% sure but you can try the following

try adding this to boot.ini
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows 98"

if it doesn't work set disk(1) to disk(0) and rdisk(0) to rdisk(1)

Iain sorted it for me - the other way round - but I'm sure you can apply the principals...

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthrea...ight=dual+boot

Cheers

Mick :D

Cheers guys. That seemed to almost work :rolleyes: It said Win98 was missing some component and couldn't load. I'm wondering if this is because my master drive is NTFS formatted so Win98 can't read it, any views?

Still stuck with unplugging the master's power and booting 98 from the slave, this works fine but is a bit of a pain.

I think you need the older OS on the C:drive and XP on Slave as you have pointed out

NTFS cant read FAT32 other way round works I guess

Just use VMWare , it's a lot easier.

If you feel like wasting a few hours (days) then consider re-installing. If Win98 is installed first, when you install XP it will automatically set up dual-booting.

Dont know if this helps but i've just installed 2 O/S and have 2 hard drives,this is the advice i was given.
I was told to do it in this order.

1.Install WinME first.
2.Then on the other drive install Win2K on FAT32 format.

Works fine,get the choice on boot up and can cross reference files between the two.

Only thing is i thought i was installing win2k on my second hard drive but its still empty?

I second that. Excellent bit of software.