dual booting xp and 98

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is this boot.ini file correct if xp is on my primary drive and 98 is my
secondary?

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

if not how to I set it up properly to dual boot between two hd's?

thanks
 
from the wonderful said:
is this boot.ini file correct if xp is on my primary drive and 98 is my
secondary?
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If your primary HDD is formatted NTFS, rather than FAT32, you will not
be able to dual boot Win98 using the WinXP boot manager (most 3rd party
boot managers will cope).
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98"
/fastdetect

if not how to I set it up properly to dual boot between two hd's?
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see:
http://www.dougknox.com/index.html

'installing Win98 after XP', for instance.

You don't have to guess at boot.ini, the winXP repair console command
bootcfg /rebuild will fix it for you in most cases. (
 
You don't have to guess at boot.ini, the winXP repair console command
bootcfg /rebuild will fix it for you in most cases.

GSV:

Bootcfg does not find Win9x op systems per tests.
 
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