On Fri, 28 May 2010 15:29:01 -0700, Andrew
wrote:

3. Is use of the ptedit.exe (from DOS) essential for the suggested by you
test?

No, you could use any suitable program. But it might be safer to do the
changes outside of Win98 (e.g. DOS) because you are seeing the problem
when running Win98. Also you mentioned the difference after a reboot
which suggests that some of the effects of the change are only detected
when Win98 is starting.

4. MS approach to multibooting has documented disadvantages, especially in
case you decide to get rid of Win98 at a later time.

Yup, nothing's perfect. For instance NTLDR has a limitation of 10
entries in the BOOT.INI file. Of course, only silly people like me will
ever hit this limit so it's not really a problem.

Cheers,
--
Steven