Hey, I have been running a dual boot Linux/win2000 system for quite a while and have a lot of data I would prefer not to loose. Recently I installed a hard drive with win 98se already installed on it. I know that windows 98 should be installed before 2000 preferably, but is there any way to add 98 to the boot menu without killing my data and 2k partition etc.

And your apps in W2K still work fine? Great if they do so. Reason I mention it is that by adding a drive, drive letter enumeration changes and since even W2k stores registry entries by drive letter this can cause problems. Take a look here for a possible solution to what you want to do. http://www.computing.net/howto/simple/addharddrive/

Yes everything in 2k works fine... it added the drive to the end so all other drives were the same.

Hmm although I might run into that later, thats not exactly what I am looking for. I want to know if its possible to add windows 98 to the win2k boot loader somehow. so then I will have a choice between windows 98 and 2000 when I start up. Thanks!

Have no experience of Linux.. but perhaps have browse of Post 21665 (#5) on this W2K forum; it details the how/why of dual-boot (W2K/'98). It may adapt to your having Linux already present? Preferably '98 goes in first, but either 'can' go in first - as long as you have an active Primary that is fat32 (even fat16), as this active primary has to be accessible by all installed M$ OS at boot-time. Also an OS can be resident there, but each in its own partition/logical-drive is preferable - leaving the system partition (where the boot/start-up files reside) with only the boot/start-up files. Worst case solution... use an add-in boot-manager util? PM/SC make good utils, and there may be some freebies around too? Out of curiosity went a little trawling...(useful way to learn); used the string (via google.com): triple-boot linux, windows 2000, windows 98 'came up with: http://www.mozillaquest.com/stories_01/tri-boot-01/tri-boot01_01_Story-01.html http://www.labdv.com/leon-lab/pc/multiboot/multiboot_en.htm From which it would appear that it's wiser/easier to install Linux last; otherwise use an add-in bootmanager util??? If you're able/willing to 'lose' Linux initially (at the least, access to it temporarily), then you may be able to add in '98 (using the 21665 model as a guide); after-which recover access to Linux? (Incidentally it seems 'some' versions of Linux cannot see/access fat32?) If you do manage it, perhaps post back 'how' - so we all know for future reference?

Well that would be my problem... my primary active partition has windows 2000 on it... and I made it NTFS (was not planning on adding 98). But I managed to get it to boot with a disk. But its not very stable, which is either the boot disk or just win98's inharent instability. It's alot easier just to install it the right way, 98 then 2k then linux. So I made a boot disk with COMMAND.COM, DRVSPACE.BIN, HIMEM.SYS, IO.SYS, and then the MSDOS.SYS file found on the drive win98 was installed on. Just leave it in when booting to go to 98. Although, I had alot of problems with drivers of course something I have come to expect from 98. Thanks for all the help.