|What I'm wanting is NO boot menu to pop up automatically at start up.
|Instead can I arrange so that the dual boot option is presented
|ONLY when I bring up the Windows98 Startup Menu by pressing Control during bootup?
|And if I do nothing during bootup, the system would just launch Windows98 as usual.
| Andy

Most folks confuse "Boot" and "Load my OS".

"Boot" means that a computer pulls itself up by its bootstraps.
It is a series of BIOS routines that checks and initializes the hardware.
It happens even if there is no operating system on the machine.

The next to the last thing that happens during boot is that the speaker beeps;
one beep means all the hardware checked out OK.

The last thing that happens in the boot process
is that the computer goes looking for an OS.
The CMOS setting tells it on which disk(s) it should look.
If the boot sector of that disk points at an OS, that OS loads.
If the boot sector is modified for dual boot,
it points at a boot manager, and THAT loads (NOT an OS).

Once an Operating System has started to load, you're past the dual-boot option.

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