Re: Can I partition a disk and make it bootable for windows from linux?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Spongebob wrote:

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> Is there any way to make grub delay a little? Windows is
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> beyond the point where I can use the key (it's F5, I forget
> what F8 does -- command line
> maybe?) to enter safe mode really fast. I have about the time
> of a fast mouse double-click to press F5 after hitting enter
> in the grub menu.
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> I'm using Win98. I don't seem to have boot.ini.
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Whereas I couldn't find anything in the manual for grub that would do 
what you need, you can do it from the Windows side. Add something like 
this to your config.sys file in Windows98:

[menu]
MENUITEM=dummy_entry,Windows 98
MENUITEM=win98,Windows 98
MENUDEFAULT=win98,5

[dummy_entry]

[win98]

[common]
<rest of config.sys goes here>


Now the boot process of Windows98 should show a menu allowing you to 
choose "Windows 98" (the dummy entry) or "Windows 98"; it'll give you 5 
seconds before automatically booting into "Windows 98" (the non-dummy 
entry). If you manually choose either entry, it won't make a difference 
since it doesn't actually do anything.

Be aware it's been a long time since I've done this; I'm not certain of 
the syntax.

--
Kent