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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Mordejai on June 12, 2001, 10:55:03 PM

Title: Complex dual-boot
Post by: Mordejai on June 12, 2001, 10:55:03 PM

My brother usually plays games that don\'t run on w2k (my primary OS).
This is the configuration I have now:
Master HD: NTFS
  Windows 2000
  Boot.ini:
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINNT=\"Windows 2000 Professional (30)\" /fastdetect
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)WINNT=\"Windows 2000 Professional (8)\" /fastdetect

Slave HD: FAT32
  Windows 2000
  Windows 98 SE
  Boot.ini:
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINNT=\"Windows 2000 Professional (8)\" /fastdetect
    C:=\"Windows 98 SE\"

To boot from Slave drive, I change the setup to make it start from \"D\".
When Booting from master, I can start any W2k.
Booting from Slave, I can start the W2k in the slave, or W98.

I\'d like to be able to boot W98 from the Master. Is this possible? (I\'ve tried adding C: and D: in boot.ini and none worked).

Also, I\'d like to boot the W2k in the master from the slave. Note that, in the slave\'s boot.ini rdisk(0) starts slave\'s W2k.

Title: Complex dual-boot
Post by: Josetann on June 13, 2001, 10:31:11 AM

Short answer, no.  You can\'t boot Win9x from a slave drive, it HAS to be drive C.  Now, if you swapped drives, you could probably get it to work.  Just as long as Win98 thinks it\'s drive C, it\'ll be fine.