Editing the boot.ini file

[Daniel Prince]

I have a dual boot system with 98 SE and XP. Since my XP
installation is not working at all right now I want to change my
boot.ini file so that it defaults to booting 98. This is what is in
my boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition" /fastdetect
C:\="Previous Operating System on C:"

How do I change it so that it defaults to booting 98? The msconfig
from 98 does not seem to be able to change it and I can not run the
one in XP. Windows 98 is on the primary partition of my first drive
in C:\windows. Thank you in advance for all replies.

 

[Jason Tsang]

Change the default line to the following

default=C:\

 

[Guest]

As Jason said, plus I would change the timeout=0 because windows xp is not
working, so it even won't show the dialog.
And if you fix your winXP, you could alwase change it back to timeout=10

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=C:\
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect
C:\="Previous Operating System on C:"