Booting of a floppy will work but only really worth while if you can find a decent floppy and its much easier to be able to have a boot menu. You joking? If you do not specify the optional third parameter, only the bootsector file is created and BOOT. INI is left untouched. This is maybe not very clear in the now almost 15 years old bootpart. The only changes made over the years were the adding of new bootsectors for Win 98, Me, 2K, XP and Vista, and some polishing, see here:.
Bootpart use is now made partially obsolete by the development of grub4dos, but it can be still useful at times. February , I seem to remember a 0. Those were the good ol'times of BBS and Why in my day Looks like your boot. Respectively this line, which does nothing:. Under the [operating systems] section, it needs 2 or more lines, 1 for each OS u want to boot into.
Note that boot. The only name types you can use in boot. INI Configuration Utility v1. Thank you very much, jaclaz and MDGx! Oh, noes! What is the problem? The only thing I highly suggest is : your active partition on your first hard disk must be a FAT16 primary partition. This may be a small partition. If you find a workaround, please let me know. Happy you like it. Before you create a multi0boot config inside of Windows XP or any other OS you should follow certain precautions:.
If you have multiple operating systems on your computer, you can select one to use as a default for when you start your computer. The information below will explain how you can set up a multi-boot system with Windows XP and any of the operating systems below: MS-Dos or Windows 3. Repairing and Reformatting the Hard Disk You may need to reformat and repair the hard disk if any of the following apply to your situation: You only have one volume You must install every OS on its own separate volume so that your computer can keep its configuration information and files.
Your boot partition does not have the correct file system formatted File Systems That Are Supported The table below lists the following file systems that are supported: Source: support. Lukeno1 likes this. I've tried restoring XP, deleting the partition, neither worked. Tried creating a new partition to reinstall the program, that didn't fix the issue either.
Tried deleting all partitions on the one drive, but can't do that for the WD as that has a lot of Win98 data on Any ideas? Any ideas about the boot menu now? The Symantec thing is now gone. Also, if don't want to use a 3rd party bootloader, your BIOS should make use of a F key where you can select which hard drive to boot.
TonyT ,. Unfortunately none of that post helps me. I've got no issues with the cable jumpering, and that multi-boot guide, typically of Microsoft, assumes everything is on one hard drive - and in any case it seems to hint that XP's install should've sorted everything, which it didn't.
And up until I got rid of the bootloader, I was well aware of the F8 sequences, however I dislike those sequences, but had been using it - however, since Windows 98 has ceased to boot through that method, and the computer has attempted a boot via the motherboard's network controller. Disabling the network controller causes it to boot into Windows XP, even when not selecting the Seagate drive I wish to use a 3rd party bootloader, but I would like one that works properly!
On an XP machine - installing Vista will automatically create a boot menu. Its the older Win 98 that causes problems. Have you considered running Win 98 inside a Virtual machine
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