Spiderkeys
Member
Hello, I've been using EASYBCD for some time now and I've had little problems, and being an O/S freak, it not uncommon for me to have a boot menu of more than 5 Operating Systems on my machines, ranging from Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1.
Yesterday, I got bit daring, and made way for a 15gig patition, and installed Windows 98 along-side already working Windows 2000 on a IDE Hard Drive formatted to FAT32.
I Finally actually got Windows 98SE working, then I thought I had come to the fun part of easily adding it to the boot menu with Windows 2000, and with my SATA Drive with XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
Problem is I create a new entity, I have to select the type as Windows 95/98/ME Entry which I haven't used before, and I only get an option of Automatically Determined, so I have to trust that, I added a couple of entities in case one doesnt work, and also made another entry where I pointed to the Windows 98 Drive in Advanced Settings.
Unfortunately all I either get to the Windows Boot Manager error page with Windows failed to start, File :\NST\AutoNeoGrub0.mbr, etc. etc, or on another setting the GRUB4DOS 0.4.5c page comes up with a blink cursor on grub>
Now before you presume maybe my Windows 98 installation got corrupt, I can still boot Windows 98 anytime by pressing reset, tapping F8, getting to the BIOS boot drive select screen and just selecting the IDE drive, which is a real pain way of changing Operating Systems.
Anyway all my other boot entries from 2000 to Windows 7 are fine, just have to be very different to boot Windows 98, which of course I rather it be a working option on the Boot Menu along side my other entries.
Any suggestions, obviously Windows 9x series has different way of booting, but why it is so difficult for EasyBCD to find?
Yesterday, I got bit daring, and made way for a 15gig patition, and installed Windows 98 along-side already working Windows 2000 on a IDE Hard Drive formatted to FAT32.
I Finally actually got Windows 98SE working, then I thought I had come to the fun part of easily adding it to the boot menu with Windows 2000, and with my SATA Drive with XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
Problem is I create a new entity, I have to select the type as Windows 95/98/ME Entry which I haven't used before, and I only get an option of Automatically Determined, so I have to trust that, I added a couple of entities in case one doesnt work, and also made another entry where I pointed to the Windows 98 Drive in Advanced Settings.
Unfortunately all I either get to the Windows Boot Manager error page with Windows failed to start, File :\NST\AutoNeoGrub0.mbr, etc. etc, or on another setting the GRUB4DOS 0.4.5c page comes up with a blink cursor on grub>
Now before you presume maybe my Windows 98 installation got corrupt, I can still boot Windows 98 anytime by pressing reset, tapping F8, getting to the BIOS boot drive select screen and just selecting the IDE drive, which is a real pain way of changing Operating Systems.
Anyway all my other boot entries from 2000 to Windows 7 are fine, just have to be very different to boot Windows 98, which of course I rather it be a working option on the Boot Menu along side my other entries.
Any suggestions, obviously Windows 9x series has different way of booting, but why it is so difficult for EasyBCD to find?