You might get somewhere with http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ Smart Boot Manager ...
Alternatively, pop w98/gentoo onto hdb, and install w2k into the old w98 space?
-jim
Nick Rout wrote:
Ok silly me I thought these couple of days off would give me an
opportunity to upgrade my office computer. This is in part a windows
question, but there is a linux link and people here are smart.
Setup before today:
1. 40G hard drive partitioned so /dev/hda1 is fat with w98, balance of disk is various linux partitions. Booting is via grub to either w98 or gentoo linux.
Changes today:
2. added a new hard drive as /dev/hdb. Allowed the W2K windows installer to format it as ntfs. Allowed windows installation to proceed to install on that drive (E:\ after C:\ (w98) and D:\ (cdrom). I wasn't watching most of the time but it eventually said it was completed and would reboot.
Result:
3. when grub tries to load the old win98 stanza, [1] it simply produces the error message:
"NTLDR is missing Press any key to restart"
4. linux still boots fine.
5. I have been unable to persuade grub to boot the presumably installed w2k on /dev/hdb1
What next, I don't want to make anything worse!
[1] rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1
