I have win 2k win98 win xp and linux on my first disk and DOS+3.11 on the second disk I use XPs boot.ini to choose OS. Is there a tool to extract the boot sectors to put them in boot.ini (something like linux dd command?) for dos

(I know nothing about linux, so I'm going drawing on what I understand re' dos/3x/'9x/NT etc...) Presumably you are able to boot to XP/W2K/'98/linux but not dos/3x, and wish to be able to boot to dos/3x via the XP boot-loader??? win3x sits on top of dos. dos (and thus 3x) has to be on the first (Master) drive; and also in the first (physical) Primary on that drive (if there's more than one primary partition present). For dos/3x to boot along with '9x (via the NT family boot-loader, i.e. each as a separate choice in the boot-menu) there has to be bootsect.dos for both dos/3x and '9x; the version for dos/3x is not the same version as that for '98. There are ways to establish two bootsect.dos - one for '98 and one for dos/3x - and thus allow both options in an XP/W2K/NT boot.ini/boot-menu. It can done via a slightly conveluted batch-file routine, or via a 'clever' creation of both bootsect.dos; dos's version is usually created first then '98's version... And there's a way to have just one for both dos/'9x but dos has to be there before '9x goes in...; dos is then accessed via '98 boot-options But dos/3x has to be on the Master drive (in the active Primary partition) to boot - regardless... And that active Primary has to be fat16 (with a 2Gig limit).