Dual boot, XP and 98 ..... Help!

[boshuter]

I'm trying to dual boot with XP Pro and 98se. I installed 98 on a FAT32 partician on a 200gig IDE drive and then installed XP on an NTFS partician on my 36gig SCSI drive. I can boot to either OS, but only by changing the boot order in BIOS. All disks are "basic" and aside from not getting the dual boot option at system startup, everything works fine.

Thanks in advance for any help...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Try installing them on the same disk. It sounds like the XP boot stuff didn't get installed properly.

 

[boshuter]

I really don't want them on the same disk..... I'll very seldom use 98, that's why it's on a partician on the IDE drive, XP is on my 15k scsi.......... if it won't work like this, i'll just change the boot order in the bios when I want to use 98, or dump 98

 

[n0cmonkey]

I vote for dumping 98. You could try other boot programs, like the one partition magic has (boot magic maybe?).

 

[boshuter]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I vote for dumping 98. You could try other boot programs, like the one partition magic has (boot magic maybe?).

As long as it doesn't cause any problems, I'll leave 98 on there. I considered trying boot magic, may give that a shot. I believe it is a problem in the "system ini file" (I think that's the one that should control the dual boot option at startup)???

 

[EeyoreX]

The file that handles boot options is boot.ini, not system.ini. I'd also vote for dumping 98. However, could it be that one hard drive is IDE and the other SCSI that is causing the problem? I have never dual booted with a configuration like this (one OS on IDE the other on SCSI). I wouldn't think it would really matter, but I don't have any other ideas.

\Dan

 

[DarkSarkas]

What you need to do is use a program like partition magic to hide the xp drive from the 98 drive.

 

[fortythree]

You need a Boot.ini file on your C drive and you need your C drive to be the boot drive.. so in your BIOS make sure C drive (IDE) is set as the boot drive... I know in my BIOS I can set it to "other" which is what I would use if I wanted to boot off one of my SCSI drives.. (I would then go into my SCSI utility and set which SCSI drive I want to boot from)

then you just make sure your boot.ini file looks something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"

I have win98 on my C drive which is IDE, I have winXP on my F drive which is SCSI