David White wrote:
> I couldn't... find any combo of commands that would boot to MsDos
> ...can't determine a method to make 1st primary partition
> active.
>
> But it dual boots to FC2 & WinDoze 2000
>
Do you actually need to set the primary partition active?
My set-up is this:
1. Install Win98 (Dos should be the same). Let it create a physical
partition of a suitable size, and leave the rest blank.
2. Install Win2K. Let it create a partition for itself (specify the
size. It will create an extended partition covering the whole of the
disk, and a logical partition of the requested size. It will also
copy the DOS bootsector to C:\bootsect.dos.
3. Install Fedora. Partition as required: Fedora is quite happy having
everything in logical partitions. Install Grub to the MBR.
4. Modify /boot/grub/grub.conf somewhat as follows:
title Fedora Core (Linus kernel 2.6.7)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7 ro root=/dev/hda6 acpi=force
title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title Windows 98
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader /bootsect.dos
Hope this gives you ideas...
James.
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