Dual Boot

[allstar_07]

Hi,

I've got W2000 on my master drive and connected a slave with W98 on.
Can i edit the boot.ini file, and what to, so it recognises the W98 and gives me the option to boot that up. I really need to get on there and run a program quickly for the lovely Uni Dissertation

Cheers Guys

 

[allstar_07]

Here's my boot file at the mo:

[boot loader]
timeout=2
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

To get it coming up with two W2000 pro boot options is it dafe to delete the last line?

And what line can i add to recognise W98 on the slave?

What does rdisk(0)/(1) stand for?

Cheers

 

[Cromewell]

assuming the 2nd drive is on the second(usually slave) connector on the primary PATA controller socket and windows is installed on the 1st/only partition you want multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98" /fastdetect

rdisk is what physical connector the drive is on (0 is primary PATA channel 1st disk, 1 is primary channel 2nd disk, 2 is secondary channel 1st disk, 3 is secondary channel 2nd disk)

 

[allstar_07]

Cheers

I did that and it worked. The problme is now that when i select W98 to boot it immediately comes up with an error message saying Windows2000 cannot boot because incorrect or missing <Windows 2000 Boot>system32\ntoskrnl.exe

When i first put my new hard drive in i installed W2000 on it with the old drive at master. presumably changing all the files on the old drive to allow for dual boot? Is this the case?

How can i repair the W98 files so the old disk just want to boot W98, i havent got the original cd or a repair boot disk?!

Cheers

 

[Cromewell]

oops my bad , non-NT based OSes are special, try changing

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98" /fastdetect

to this

<insert win98 drive letter>:\="Windows 98"

so that would be something like D:\="Windows 98"

the stuff in quotes can say whatever you like