Windows 98 and DOS 6.22 manual dual boot?
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:03 am
Hey guys, new here, hope you can help
I recently threw together a computer with a P1 150mhz mobo, 64MB SIMM RAM, 2MB PCI graphics card and SB16 waveffects ISA card, a 1.6GB HDD and a 125MB HDD, as well as a quad CDROM, 5 1/4 floppy and 3 1/2 floppy.
Anyway, I want to be able to manually boot each OS through the BIOS when I want to (if you're wondering why, I want a straight up DOS OS separate from the win98 OS). It works, but the thing is that I have the 1.6GB with win98 set as master and the 125MB with DOS 6.22 set as slave. When I boot to DOS (selecting D: as the boot drive) it sets the slave drive as C: (normal I realise) but then I can't access the 1.6GB drive, it just isn't there.
Based on a microsoft KB article I found, it should see the first 2 drives and assign them letters automatically, but it's not. As far as I know it should be working.
Any ideas? Anything I should watch out for in the hard drive settings in the BIOS?
Thanks in advance for any help
I recently threw together a computer with a P1 150mhz mobo, 64MB SIMM RAM, 2MB PCI graphics card and SB16 waveffects ISA card, a 1.6GB HDD and a 125MB HDD, as well as a quad CDROM, 5 1/4 floppy and 3 1/2 floppy.
Anyway, I want to be able to manually boot each OS through the BIOS when I want to (if you're wondering why, I want a straight up DOS OS separate from the win98 OS). It works, but the thing is that I have the 1.6GB with win98 set as master and the 125MB with DOS 6.22 set as slave. When I boot to DOS (selecting D: as the boot drive) it sets the slave drive as C: (normal I realise) but then I can't access the 1.6GB drive, it just isn't there.
Based on a microsoft KB article I found, it should see the first 2 drives and assign them letters automatically, but it's not. As far as I know it should be working.
Any ideas? Anything I should watch out for in the hard drive settings in the BIOS?
Thanks in advance for any help