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.