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by jsolari020

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I am trying to dual boot operating systems. 98 and Windows Xp. One problem i am coming across is that i want it to "default" meaning come right up to windows 98 without and option menu. Is there a way to do this so it "defaults" to 98 but when i wanna tell it to boot to XP it will?

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by dmiles

No, you cannot option Win98 as the default,you could list it as the first option and decrease the time to boot into operating system,

by mdupont_2000

You can set it to give you 1 or 2 seconds to choose but I don't think you can make it the default choice without the OS Loader appearing.

by alveden

Look for a file call boot.ini in your c:\ directory. It is a hidden file, so you need to set the folder options to allow viewing of hidden and system files.

Open the boot.ini file with notepad. You should set the second and third line to something like this.

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=C:\

The timeout parameter allow you so set the delay for booting the default os in seconds. In this case 1 second.

the default parameter allow you to set to the default os to boot. In this case we set to to c:\, which is where the win98 have to be installed.

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