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Mandrake/LILO dual boot options??
When the computer boots up it presents an option of whether to start winxp or win98. That option is set, by default, to start winxp. The win98 option must be manually selected if the user wants to use win98. I use win98 for everyday computing, and xp, only occasionally, to learn about xp.

Repair dual boot options
Fundamentally that probably means having a "music" set of config/autoexec/win.ini/system.ini etc, and the normal set - the boot menu would then utilise the (always one to favour the easy option - why reinvent the wheel!) Look forward to any suggestions - clearly I am trying to avoid dual-booting as it is

Soundcard problem RH 6.2 (Creative soundblaster 16 PnP (WDM))
Win2K setup automatically recognizes dual-boot configurations and sets this switch for BOOT.INI lines that specify a Win2K boot. This option is configured by default on the [VGA] option on the boot menu. /WIN95 This switch is only pertinent on a triple-boot system that has DOS, Win9x and Windows NT installed.

Dual boot, correct boot.ini
Rob "David Walker" <dw...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OL7L5YqaBHA. 1452@tkmsftngp03... I currently have WinXP and Win2000 dual booting on my computer. How could I ad another boot for DOS. I have another primary partition I can use for it, which i can format to FAT, but how do i get this into the boot menu.

Dual Boot Options after Partially Failed XP Pro Upgrade
The dual boot had nothing to do with it. I'd need to know more to know what DID cause it, but it wasn't the dual boot. OK, the boot.ini stays. I'll just edit out the MS-DOS line. Do you think that having the MS-DOS option and the bootsect.dos file could actually cause a disaster recovery from tape to fail to

OS/2 boot options (was: Re: Dual boot and ...)
The steps below show how you should setup a Windows NT and Linux dual boot system. Install Windows NT Install Linux, making sure LILO is installed to the The last step is adding a menu option to the Windows NT boot menu. Under Windows NT open a command prompt. C:\WINNT>cd \ C:\>attrib -r -a -s -h boot.ini

Dual boot options -- edit so WinME default?
I was thinking of having a dual boot system with some scripting to do a one button copy of all his data every night. You dont even need that with some OSs, xxcopy, not the same as xcopy, will do that without even a boot, copying just what changed during the day and that run can be initiated auto etc.

newbie question on dual boot options
He formatted the 2nd drive, as he only wants the one instance of Windows, but the 'dual boot' option remains. We set the time for display for the dual boot to zero, and he has no problems with his system now. He just wants to know if there is some way of getting rid of the dual boot option altogether,

Dual Boot Menu Options.....ME and 2000 Pro
(@^ ARGHHHHkkk!" sa...@mninter.net Werner <wbroc...@mweb.co.za> wrote in message news:37713ce4.0@news1.mweb.co.za... Hi all ! I've set up one system to dual boot Win98 and NT successfully by first installing NT, and then Win98. Then I repaired the NT patition, and at startup it gives me the options of NT and Win98.

Partition and Dual Boot Vol IV (Options/Inclinations)
I have recently set up my comp as a dual boot system, with w98 on one partition and w2k on another. Due to some mix-ups on my part, I now have too many options on the intial start up screen. Instead of just having the 2 that should be there (98 & w2k) I have 4. The w98 option, two w2k options and a w2k Setup that

Backup options without restoration -- do they exist?
BootMulti= Enables dual-boot capabilities. The default is 0. Setting this value to 1 enables the ability to start MS-DOS by pressing F4 or by pressing F8 to use the Windows Startup menu. BootWarn= Enables the Safe Mode startup warning. The default is 1. BootWin= Enables Windows 95 as the default operating system.

safe mode in dual boot
One thing led to another and it decided to re-install it self again on my computer which I stopped after a few seconds, but now it boots to a dual boot "XP Setup" or "XP the full old version" (sorta) How do I get rid of the dual boot option to the setup?? (never did find out how to install it over a LAN.

Dual boot, Win95 & Win98
The Premise: Windows 95 gives you the option of installing over your existing 3.x (and "saving" your system files) or putting it in its own directory. Obviously, if you install over 3.x, you won't be able to dual-boot. If you install 95 in a new directory, it won't inherit your 3.x preferences or application

Bug#466713: Lenny SATA RAID Dual Boot Installation Report
However, due to some initial problems installing the NT 4.0 upgrade (3.5 won't run on a Pentium Pro), my dual-boot menus still show NT 3.5 even though it was never fully installed. How can I remove those old entries from my list? (My boot C:\ drive doesn't have a boot.ini! At least, not visible via "dir" or "dir

Dual Boot Options after clean install
Richard Steiner rstei...@visi.com alt msdos alt msdos programmer comp os msdos misc comp os msdos programmer Here in alt.msdos, Day Brown <daybr...@hughes.net> spake unto us, saying: My low income, sense of frugality, and environmental sensibilities dont leave the PC on all the time, so I appreciate a quick boot

Dual boot options
Andy 1...@2.3 microsoft public windowsxp general On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:08:00 -0800, BrianMultiLanguage <BrianMultiLangu...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: I have two drives. drive 1(D1) = C: drive 2(D2) = D: D1 is XP pro and D2 is W2K I no longer have the dual boot option and I wonder which boot.ini file is correct

lilo boot-options
They would now need to make *ALL* of their configurations in a dual boot option, just in case someone wanted to buy PC X with Linux. Why? I'd be happy if they just added one or two options of Linux (well, really, I don't care so much about that, personally, as I don't use MS -- I'd rather be able to buy a so-called

Dual Boot Dual Processor No Real Options ? - F*CK M$
Markus Becker bec...@zess.uni-siegen.de comp os ms-windows nt setup misc Peter Ekstrom wrote: I want to have both Win95 and NT 4.0 on the same machine, but I've got some programs that hate dual boot configurations. Is it possible to to put NT on a partition hidden from Win95 as in: Just make the NT partition NTFS

Dual Boot problem
The easiest thing to do is a fresh install of xp, erase all partitions and make a new NTFS partition for your xp installation. brother -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Dave Smith [mailto:nos...@none.com] Gepost om: maandag 10 december 2001 4:03 Gepost naar: alt.comp.hardware Discussie: Weird dual boot options

XP Installation - what are my options?
Kyle m...@privacy.net alt os windows2000 There is a file named bootsect.dos that ntldr uses for dual boot win98se/win2k, it may be the source of your issues, BTW, yes using ntldr menu to call 98 which is supposed to bring up it's own boot options menu. -- Email - rsgib...@verizon.borg Replace borg with net.