Nothing happens because xp wont let you boot into 98, try a win98 bootdisk.
I had this problem the installed a third party boot loader and reinstalled
both versions of win. Didnt have to reinstall Linux though.
>From: Stephen Wiebelhaus <shackman97@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: multi boot
>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:08:51 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I am trying to get a 3 boot system to work. I started
>out with Win98. Then I added Suse Linux. The dual boot
>worked fine, with Win98 on hda1 and linux on hda3.
>Then I added WinXP. Ok, I made a few partition changes
>at the same time. The primary drive became secondary,
>so that Win98 is on hdb1. I installed WinXP on the new
>harddrive, on hda1. It works fine. So I installed
>Suse9, on hda2. That works fine, I can boot WinXP or
>Suse.
>When I try to boot Win98 is when nothing happens. Grub
>comes up, I request Win98, then the screen goes black,
>except for a flashing cursor in the top left. So I
>swapped the master and slave drive settings, so I can
>boot Win98 directly, it won't boot that way anymore.
>Looks like when I installed WinXp or Suse on the
>master drive, it blewup the MBR on the slave drive.
>I used the Win98 rescue disk, and tried to restore
>the boot wth that, but it didn't work. Anyone know how
>I can restore the MBR or partition boot record for
>hdb1, so I can boot Win98 again?
>
>
>
>
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