Boot.ini

[Bill]

Ok I have 2 hard drives 1 10GB set as primary master, and a 120GB as primary
slave...initially I had 98 on the smaller master drive and XP on the slave
using OSL 200 as a boot manager. I got tired of the nag screens with it, so
I uninstalled it. It hosed my boot.ini to the point I couldn't boot XP only
98. I did a repair install of XP and managed to boot to it and now I cannot
boot to 98, my system boots straight to XP. Here is what is listed in my
boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

What line do i need to add to this to make a working boot.ini that will give
me the option of which OS to boot into? Or what to do in general to fix
this? TIA

 

[Ross Durie]

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=C:\
[operating systems]
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

 

[Bill]

This did not work....I was presented with the boot loader options offering a
choice of OS's to choose from. When I choose Windows 98 an error pops up in
the middle of the boot choices saying "I/O error accessing boot sector file
BOOTSECT.DOS" and everything is frozen from that point on. If I force a
reset by pushing the button on the tower I am presented with the boot menu
again and can then boot into XP just fine. Are you sure those are the right
lines for my boot.ini? I recall seeing one a while back(from where I can't
remember) that was a little different than the one you suggested. Any other
ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=C:\
[operating systems]
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

--
Ross

Ok I have 2 hard drives 1 10GB set as primary master, and a 120GB as
primary slave...initially I had 98 on the smaller master drive and XP on
the slave using OSL 200 as a boot manager. I got tired of the nag screens
with it, so I uninstalled it. It hosed my boot.ini to the point I
couldn't boot XP only 98. I did a repair install of XP and managed to
boot to it and now I cannot boot to 98, my system boots straight to XP.
Here is what is listed in my boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

What line do i need to add to this to make a working boot.ini that will
give me the option of which OS to boot into? Or what to do in general to
fix this? TIA