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[Using XP-SP1, 98-OSR2] Hi, I have the classic problem with drive assignments with a 98/XP dual-boot system. I have a new hard disk, partitioned into 2 drives: I decided to try an autoexec/config.sys menu under DOS, so that after selecting 98 from the XP boot loader I then get the DOS menu, and from that I

Need Dual-booting info: current 98se & add xp
So basically, i cant boot XP anymore, and all the idiots in my household who use windoze are giving me shit because they dont understand anything about linux. So you had the linux boot image stored in the root of your xp drive and were using the xp bootloader to boot linux. From what it sounds, all you need to do

Restoring MBR
[boot loader] timeout=5 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Using XP Pro. When I boot the system up it says that the boot.ini file is missing, then goes to C:\windows to find the boot info and boots into XP.

Adding Win2k
I will "open" this topis once again to ask somebody here is it possible to "move" or copy boot loader which is now on E partition to partition C which is "John Barnes" wrote: If you are not using the XP partition, why don't you delete it. Management console has limited capabilities for partition management.

FYI: vmware 4.5.x & Suse 9.3 ( 2.6 kernel ) using XP on a raw ...
As said, the key point is: they all load the boot sector of the active partition. So when you install xp after vista, the key point is to restore the boot sector. If you don't, you can write all The MBR is like a "global bootsector" that tells the BIOS where in the hard-drive it should look for a bootloader.

Pre-installed XP home-Adding dualboot Win98
On the basis that you have emptied the G: logical drive and deleted it using XP, then the Mandrake installer will identify that there is an empty space in This is because lilo is the older, more conventional, boot loader and if you wish to tweak your boot process later (as for example if you add OS/2 or BEOS

Dual boot Debian and XP "boot failure" using XP boot loader
When I'm using XP I should be able to copy files from the NTFS partitions to the FAT-16 partition, right? Probably not, if it is a primary DOS partition. Additionally, don't you want to keep everything separate so a virus in Windows dosen't affect everything? That is one reason to use a 3rd party boot loader such

Swap Win98 drive before XP install?
Jerry jabe...@hotmail.com comp os linux setup Using the floppy won't work Read this howto: http://classes.csumb.edu/CST/CST434-01/world/DualBoot.html Read /mnt umount /mnt Rebooted into MSDOS and copied a:\bootsect.lnx to c:\ and added the following to XPs boot.ini c:\bootsect.lnx="Debian Linux - Woody" Jens.

DOS Mode in 2K and XP
I have Win 98 running on drive C:, Win XP on drive D, dual booting without problems using the XP boot loader. Into a third partition, I want to install Linux Mandrake 8.1. What problems should I expect, if someone has done this? Should I use Lilo or Grub and if so should they be installed in the mbr or on the Linux

Using boot.ini to boot secondary slave
Is your XP starting up after the error? Do you have another operating system like win 98 on your machine? [boot loader] timeout=3 Hi all, First let me say that I am an American living in Holland and using XP Home in Dutch. Right before the Boot Screen I get a black screen with white printing in the left upper

Dual boot Debian and XP "boot failure" using XP boot loader
Also, does anyone happen to know how you get to a restore point when not using XP as the bootloader? Manuals all say to hit F8 when asked what program you want to run, but using my GRUB bootloader I never get to that screen. I rode F8 all the way through the boot sequence to no avail. There must be a work-around!

GRUB Just hangs there - need help on conf file I think
Grub will give you three choices; Windows Mandrake 10.0 Floppy If you choose Windows, boot.ini will give you two choices; Microsoft Windows XP Professional Microsoft Windows 98 SE Timeout will give you 15 seconds to choose. End of story ;-D -- imotgm Ok I know I can follow this way using XP bootloader for booting

Multi-boot from XP
On a Vista/Win XP dual boot computer, I ran fdisk /mbr from a Win98 SE bootable floppy. Results: 1) Vista's dual boot menu displayed in normal manner 2) Vista op Legacy OS Loader ------------------------ identifier {ntldr} device unknown path \ntldr description Earlier version of Windows Windows Boot Loader

Floppy boot MSDOS 7.0, see FAT-16 partitions on XP NTFS + FAT ...
Even using my installed version of xp which has all the service packs and updates proves fruitless. It should be seeing the whole drive but it is not. Maybe I can use msconfig to change the boot order around a little? Right now it shows under the boot.ini tab: [Boot Loader] Timeout=5 Default=c:\$WIN_NT$.

Using the XP boot loader insted of Vista's
However, administrators can disable DEP on selected executable files by using System in Control Panel. optin Enables DEP only for operating system components, including the Windows kernel and On Windows XP with SP2 and later versions of the Windows client operating system, the default value is /noexecute=optin.

He Who Controls the Bootloader
I dont have 98 on my system but do have W2k, W2k server and XP (several copies of) all managed by the simple XP boot loader. And if you do decide after using XP for a while that it would be nice to be able to boot to SE for say games for quite a while, its completely trivial to install a real full horsepower

Linux9 and xp???
Oh, OK, so you're using XP bootloader then and it lost the placemet of your Win98 system files. I know how to boot all three with LILO, but I've never actually used XP bootloader. So, the relevant group for you is alt.os.winodws-xp. Is your Win98 on the first partition of your primary master?

dual boot
All I know is that mine looks like this: [boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT [operating systems] I'm currently using XP, but due to certain compatility issues, I've decided to install 98 on another harddrive, which runs as secondary slave. However, setting up the boot.ini

He Who Controls the Bootloader
Dave dfe...@kent.edu microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment I have been using XP Pro on my PC for quite some time but now have the need to also Most of the KB info on the subject states that you should install ME on the C: drive first (to prevent destroying the XP boot loader) followed by the XP install.

Installing Win 98 (new partition) after XP
But what about the boot loader? All I know is LILO. Never used Grub. In this situation I installed LILO in the superblock of the Linux boot partition (not in (at least in my case, using XP on NTFS without any FAT partitions at the time - though it was useful to add a FAT32 partition later for data exchange).