I would assume he means a fat16 partition. If you want to
use the multiboot capabilities of NT, you've got to
go through some sort of boot sector shuffling such as
we've been talking about in these numerous posts, or
stop being a moron and hire a boot manager to do it
for you <g>. This IS supposed to be a joke (not the
boot manager part, though).
I think one of the major values of this kind of procedure
(and its discussion) is not so much what you end up with
on the PC, though that's valuable too,
but the understanding of the underlying structure of
things.
Here's the simplest I can break it down. When NT is
installed, it saves the previous partition boot sector
of the C partition (the partition boot sector is just
the first physical sector of the partition). IF this boot
sector is that of a previously installed OS, then you
can boot that previous OS as "other" from NT.
If not, and you want to use NT's "boot other" facility,
you have to contrive to get the other OS installed
(which destroys NT's boot sector),
then get Other's boot sector into bootsect.dos, then get
NT's boot sector back. There have been several ways
of doing this discussed.
That's it. There's no way to avoid this soft-shoe sector
shuffle IF you want to use NT's "other OS" boot for DOS
(or some other OS), since the other OS wasn't installed
first.
The BIOS selection of a boot drive is something else.
That bypasses the problem by selecting from more than
one possible physical drive, each of which can have
an independently booting OS. In effect, the bios is
a limited boot manager. You're not using the NT "boot
other" capability.
Boot managers bypass the problem by booting themselves
then booting the OS you select. Similar to the bios,
though with much more capability. As you know, I am
not an expert on boot managers.
I haven't answered your question quite directly but
tried to lead you to the answer. Did I succeed? <g>
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