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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 1018058" data-attributes="member: 325666">Ok ..now I'm out of my comfort zone ..Having already created win98SE for Chameleon on the first primary partition of a 320gb IDE drive ..I hid it and proceeded to install mint 15 ...This automatically integrated 98SE even though it was 'hidden' at the time ..Mint found it and set up a dual boot system without my express permission..Thus I assume grub has been implemented ..and no longer uses MBR ?Now whenever I boot the drive ..Mint is always default and at first although Win98SE was an option would not boot ..until that is I used Gparted to unset the hidden flag and set the windows partition as bootable..with me so far ..?Now when I run up the drive Mint will automatically boot ..unless I step in quickly and change to boot from 98 ...which does now boot ..The linux partitions remain invisible to 98 ...and although the 98 partition is 'mounted' during the Mint boot I suspect is not accessible to mint.I would much prefer to use GAG bootloader and have the boot option 'wait' until I choose.I suspect this will be relatively easy for 98SE ...as I'm familiar with MBR boot structure ..but Linux ...errr ..not so much ..So which partition will contain the mint (root) OS and can I simply point GAG at it and thus initiate boot ?I'm imaging the whole 320gb drive in order that I can experiment ...but anyone familiar with Mint or indeed Linux in any form ..Perhaps you might explain the structure created to a novice ..and how boot is achieved ?Once the raw image has been created ..I'll post up a screen grab or photo (whichever is easiest ) to show the drives current structure..The FAT32 structure of the first primary partition remains intact ..This is true..on account if the drive is removed and mounted as a usb drive on my main PC ..windows can access this partition ...and no access to the others created by mint..rgdsVS</blockquote>

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