Triple boot FC3 intallation question

[Paul Howarth]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 11:42 +0800, Ciba LO wrote:
> 
>>Sorry for breaking in!!!
>>
>>I have WinMe In (hd0,0) and Win98 MSDOS in (hd1,0).  And I can create 
>>bootable floppy for both.  Please advise how to create the bootsect.dos in 
>>linux or msdos for both to work with the grub chainloader that you have 
>>suggested.  I couldn't locate the bootsect.dos in my WinMe.
> 
> 
> You've installed the two copies of Windows on to different disks so
> there probably isn't a bootsect.dos there.
> 
> Something like this *might* work (I haven't tried it)
> 
> title WinME
>    hide (hd1,0)
>    unhide (hd0,0)
>    root (hd0,0)
>    makeactive
>    chainloader +1
> title Win98
>    hide (hd0,0)
>    unhide (hd1,0)
>    root (hd1,0)
>    makeactive
>    chainloader +1

Thinking about this a bit more, it probably doesn't work. The 
hide/unhide bits are intended for multiple OSes on one disk, but you 
have installed them on two disks. How exactly did you do the 
installation? Did you phsically remove the first disk when installing 
the second version of Windows? Or did you just tell it to use the second 
disk, in which case the second copy's bootloader is still probably on 
the first disk, despite the WINDOWS directory being on the second disk.

Paul.