RE: [Thinkpad] Booting with HDD in ultra bay

"Bear's Ass" This is getting' too complicated for something that ort'a be
simple :)

Balmer made the comment "Windows 2000 is the best operating system for
business applications..." or something to that effect.

He failed to say that you should keep a phillips head screwdriver with you
all the time so you will be able to change hdd's so you can change OS's
:))

Thanks for the help Rob, much appreciated, really!
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Bell [mailto:RobDBell@mailworks.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:43 PM
To: David Reid
Cc: thinkpad@stderr.org
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Booting with HDD in ultra bay

Actually, now that I think about it, the format for a Win98 OS line is
different. I'll look...

OK, like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"

But the trick here is that it isn't clear what your computer will
determine the C: drive to be (based on whether the Win2000 drive has a
FAT partition or not and whether it is 'active'). Win98 is less
tolerant of not being on the first drive on the controller so it usually
has to be located first. You may have to put the Win2000 drive in the
ultrabay and tell the TP BIOS to boot from that drive in order for C: to
be correctly registered on the Win98 drive in the main bay. In that
case, you need disk(1) for the Win2000 boot information because it is
the second drive.

I may not be 100% accurate with the above guess, but this is the right
track. You just have to play with these settings...

Rob

David Reid wrote:

> Ummm ok, so I keep W2k as disk( 0 ) or disk(1) then add a line that has
> disk(2) for Windows 98?
>
> [boot loader]
> timeout=30
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
> Professional" /fastdetect
> multi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Win98="Microsoft Windows 98 Second
> Edition" /fastdetect
>
> There's no way it could be this simple!??
>
> By the way, both individual hard drives are partitioned into 4 but the OS
> for each is located on C:

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