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by tom tossey

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XP installed on primary ide master
98se installed on primary ide slave
Possible to set up dual boot from XP??
How is it done?
Thanks...

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by gigelul

You will have dual boot automaticaly if you install the OS in the following order: first Win98, second WinXP.

by thechas

I assume that the system boots into XP.

You should be able to edit boot.ini on the XP drive to enable dual boot operation.

For details, check out the dual boot section at www.systeminternals.com
Also, search Microsofts site on the keywords boot.ini and bootcfg
You will get a list of articles on the boot.ini commands and sysntax, along with a couple of trouble shooting articles.

Chas

by hjs

It's pretty easy. Go to my computer, right click and pick properties. From system properties pick advanced. At the bottom under startup and recovery pick settings. Under system startup pick edit. This will bring up the boot file. Here is an example of an XP boot file.
[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

Just add a line that is the same and change the name (Windows 98 ) and the partition. Now you will need to know what the partition is. It could be 2 or 3 or 4 etc. You will also have to change to disk 3 (secondary slave).

by tom tossey

Thanks to all for the input.
tried editing boot.ini to no avail.
I was specifying (0), and (1) as the
boot partitions. didn't work.
Intended to just switch boot drive at bios level.
bios wouldn't allow it. gave up and used mobile
racks instead...

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