Re: Add Win98SE to Win2K-Win ME dual boot sys?
From: I'm Dan (dgREMOVE-THIS1261_at_cs.com)
Date: 06/21/04
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:24:45 -0700
"Walter Donavan" <invalid@nowhere.not> wrote:
> Here are the boot results and errors.
>
> Method OS Choice Result
> -------- --------------------- ---------------------------------
> NT Boot Win2K Success
> Normal Win2K Success
>
> NT Boot 98 SE "Error accessing boot sector
> file"
> Normal 98 SE "Error accessing boot sector
> file"
>
> NT Boot Recovery Console "Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file"
> Normal Recovery Console Success
>
> NT Boot Default (Win 2K) "Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file"
> Normal Default (Win 2K) "Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file"
>
> ...(snipped)...
>
> The contents of the boot.ini file are as follows.
>
> [Boot Loader]
> Timeout=16
> Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT
> [Operating Systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WIN2000="Microsoft Windows 2000
> Professional" /fastdetect
> C:\="Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (legacy programs)"
> C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console" /cmdcons
>
> I cannot get to Win98 SE, although it is there and it worked fine until I
> did the fixboot. At this point, I do not know what to do next.
You're discovering why multibooting with the dopey NT-style bootloader is
ultimately more problematic than it would be if you had used a real
third-party boot manager in the first place.
You have three operating system choices listing in your boot.ini, but
"Default" doesn't match any of them. Try duplicating any one of them (just
the part before the '=' sign) for your Default item (for example,
"Default=C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT").
As for the 98 boot problem, it's probably due to a missing or corrupt
bootsect.dos file. See http://thpc.info/dual/bootsectdos.html for one
method of recreating it.
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