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Solve : problem dual booting XP and Windows 98?

Answer» <html><body><p>I have Windows XP installed on <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/one-241053" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ONE">ONE</a> hard drive and Win98 SE installed on another hard drive...  Both installations work fine when there is only one drive on the system at a time.   However, I set up the boot.ini file so I can boot into either XP or Win98.....BUT, when I Master the XP drive and slave the Win98 drive, I can't boot into Windows 98.<br/><br/>At first it says, "missing hal.dll".........ok so I copy the hal.dll file from the XP drive to <strong>Windows\system32</strong> on the Win 98 drive, restart and try again......Next attempt to boot into Win98 I get, "missing ntoskrnl.exe"    Fine, so I go get ntoskrnl.exe from the XP drive and copy it to <strong>Windows\system32</strong> on the Win98 drive.....restart and try again..<br/><br/>Now when I boot into Win98 it says, "load needed DLLs for kernal"  <br/><br/>Windows 98 boots up fine when it's not hooked up as a slave drive.....  <br/><br/>I'm pretty sure my boot.ini file is right:<br/><br/>[boot <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/loader-1076690" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LOADER">LOADER</a>]<br/>timeout=10<br/>default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS<br/>[operating systems]<br/>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect<br/>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows98 SE" /fastdetect<br/><br/>please, suggestions.. Quote</p><blockquote>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows98 SE" /fastdetect<br/></blockquote> <br/><br/>ROFL<br/><br/>that's funny.<br/><br/>Windows 98SE... supporting both ARC paths AND a fastdetect switch...<br/><br/><br/>anyways...<br/><br/><br/>Windows 98 Does NOT have hal.dll. OR ntoskrnl. why wouldn't it have ntoskrnl? Why, just look at the name, silly. <strong>nt</strong>oskrnl.<br/><br/>In either case, Windows 98 Boots from MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS (mostly IO.SYS). you'll need to find a bootable windows 98 <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/floppy-2085545" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FLOPPY">FLOPPY</a> and use the "SYS" command on the windows98 drive.<br/><br/>You'll also need to change the ARC path in boot.ini to a drive letter. Since it's on your slave drive I assume D:\:<br/><br/> Quote<blockquote>[boot loader]<br/>timeout=10<br/>default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS<br/>[operating systems]<br/>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect<br/>D:\="Windows98 SE"<br/></blockquote> what is ROFL ?        ok jokes on me.....I can take it<br/><br/>anyway......I had a feeling adding ntoskrnl and hal.dll wasn't appropriate<br/><br/>what <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/exactly-977868" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EXACTLY">EXACTLY</a> do you mean by use the "sys" command?....<br/><br/>nevermind I think I get it  <br/><br/><br/><br/>edit:  ROFL:   rolling on floor laughing     <br/><br/>.........that is funny isn't it...  <br/><br/><br/></body></html>


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