Question : BOOT.INI for Win98 on partition 2

Hi,

I would like to add a boot option to boot.ini for win98, which was installed after NT, with the following configuration:

The systems has 1 IDE Disk
1st Partition is NTFS with NT40
2nd Partition is FAT with Win 98
3rd Partition is NTFS for NT

The section for operating systems is currently by default:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Server, Version 4.0" /noserialmice=com1
...

I added an entry

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)="Windows 98"

but this don't work. I also tried:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\="Windows 98"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows 98"
D:\="Windows 98"

None of the above did it right, almost when Win 98 was selected I ended up in a trap screen. Changing the active partition between 1st and 2nd with FDISK works.

Could anyone give me a hint, please.

Answer : BOOT.INI for Win98 on partition 2

I have tried to do this before...I think the answer "You can't do that..."
I heard from numerous people that for DOS/Win3.x/Win9x to boot, the first partition on the boot device must be of a recognizeable type (FAT16 for any, or FAT32 for 95OSR2 and Win98).  Since it's NTFS, Win98 won't boot.

There is an exception to this rule (see the ... in quote above?)...  I've seen it done before, once, when a friend of mine loaded Solaris, WinNT, and Win98 on the same drive...
The partitions were, in order: UFS,FAT32,NTFS,FAT16   (last one for some files that all could read).  I doubt you want to go installing Solaris just to be able to boot Win98 off of a second partition, so here's my other solution (that I currently do):

Since I don't like Win9x, and only use it on rare occasion, I tossed in a smaller (2GB) hard drive into my machine, installed Win98, then moved it to "D:" and put my big NT drive back in.  When I want to boot to Win98 I simply reboot and go into the BIOS config, tell it to boot off the IDE-1 device instead of IDE-0.  When I want NT again, I just change the boot device back...not as nice as a boot menu, but it works perfectly!