How can I choose which partition to boot on a two partition drive?

[Morelos]

I partition a disk and i want to make a menu to<br>boot from c (windows 98) or d (ms-dos 6.22)<br>thanks

 

[Karl Blessing]

if the two partitions are on seperate drives, you can use the bios to boot up on C or D, also you need to find a BootLoader, because any Batch, or exe you write wont be affective, if you boot into a partition, so you need to find some kind of boot loader, like say the NT bootloader, or the Partition Magic Bootloader. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[Morelos]

It's the same drive, but I partitioned it into two 50% total space logical drives, C and D, i'd like to have Win98 in one, and MS-DOS x.x (or any other OS) in the other one. Can this be possible, and how?

 

[fenris]

Why would you want to have dos on the other partion any way? I find that the command prompt in win98 is sufficient.<br><br>As far as win98 and ms-dos go, you can't do what you want unless you use some third party bootloader like Karl mentions in his post. As far as having other OS's on the second partiton that would be no problem (or so I am told). for instance both NT and linux could do the job.<br><br>fenris

 

[Karl Blessing]

Linux uses a LILO bootLoader<br>WinNT uses its own bootloader<br>so using Win98 in a combination of one of those two should be fine for chosing which to boot, if you just want command line at boot, press F8, a menu will pop up with choices like<br>normal, Safe mode, Safe with networking, Command line, Safe Mode Command Line.<br>just chosing Command line should be fine, considering that most dos programs just work fine in Command line under Win98, afterall microsoft is mostly backward compatible. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[Morelos]

Thanks for the tips. I just want to clarify that i mentioned MS-DOS as an example of an OS, because why would i want two partitions with basically the same OS, if Win98 has its own command prompt.