Booting two o/s

[toju]

Hullo,
Can anyone assist please.
I have installed two HDD-master and slave--and have winMe on the master with win98 on the primary partition of the slave .
Iam unable to boot up win98--other than by changing the jumpers and making the slave the master and isolating the original master.
I have tried changing the cmos settings to have the slave as first boot device, to no avail.
I note that winXP has it's own boot manager to get around this.
Is there a way I can get around this without installing a boot manager.
Toju

[30111987]

you'll need a boot manager
there are plenty to choose from, try a search in google for some products

[GretaP]

Hi toju,
If your BIOS doesn't support booting from an HDD other than the Primary HDD, then, as 30111987 states, you'll need a boot manager.

[toju]

Hi toju,
If your BIOS doesn't support booting from an HDD other than the Primary HDD, then, as 30111987 states, you'll need a boot manager.
Thanks for the speedy reply Gretap.
Would you mind advising on just where in BIOS I can find this infirmation and whether it can be changed.
Toju.

[toju]

you'll need a boot manager
there are plenty to choose from, try a search in google for some products
Thanks,I have had a look at a few.But I do feel that there
must be another way.I'll keep looking.
Toju

[GretaP]

Thanks for the speedy reply Gretap.
Would you mind advising on just where in BIOS I can find this infirmation and whether it can be changed.
Toju.
You're welcome, toju.

When you cycle thru the possible boot devices in BIOS, if you have choice of, for example, HDD-0, HDD-1, HDD-2, HDD-3, then you would be able to set an HDD other than the Primary one (the one with WINME) as the bootable HDD.