hi, my system was having win2000 installed in drive c:. and later i've installed win98 in drive d:. installation was succesful but OS Choice screen is not coming and it directly booting win98. I've searched for boot.ini in win98 (D:/) and i've found an shortcut pointing to boot.ini in drive c:/. I changed this boot.ini(in c:/) to [BOOT LOADER] timeout=30 Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [Operating System] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect (Below line is entered by me previously it was not there) multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WIN98="Microsoft Windows 98" /fastdetect pls help me out.. quickly

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;293401

When dual booting with any 9x product you want to install the oldest OS first. Since you did it backwards your best bet is probably a 3'd party boot loader program which will scan your drive for OS's and give you the options to boot into either one or the other.

no third party managers required. it is OK to install out of order if you know how to repair. Since the files for 2000 already exist you just need to update the master boot record to point to the W2K boot loader instead of the dos boot loader for 98. Boot the w2k cd and go into recovery console. run the utilities fixmbr and fixboot. run bootcfg /rebuild then exit and reboot. You should come up with the w2k/98 multiboot. Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect (Below line is entered by me previously it was not there) multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WIN98="Microsoft Windows 98" /fastdetect uhhhh????? 2 installations on the same partition. they are pointing to the same place thats impossible

What you are missing here ooglenz1 is that ARC [multi..] doesn't work for msdos based OS's. This was an attempt to load 98 in the boot.ini. Correct entry would be c:\="Windows 98" which in turn points to c:\msdos.sys Issue here is with the installation of 98 the master boot record was altered from looking for ntldr/ntdetect/boot.ini to io.sys/msdos.sys/command.com Running the repair as I suggested will fix this. Make sense now? Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search