I have moved on since I did this thread. My system has been replaced by two SSD in Raid0 to enable me to fire up Win8, WIn7 or Ubuntu in 12 to 15 seconds. I have ceased to play with Dos and put my attention into the newer MS Windows and GPT partitions.

I did manage to install 5 MS Windows, Win2000, Xp, Vista, Win7 and Win8, all in logical partitions and found out it can be controlled/booted by the bootmgr.exe of Win8. I also spend more time on the Grub2 as that is the only way to work with hard disk larger than 2TB. Grub1 can't cope with large disks or do GPT partitions.

Older MS Windows demand a lot of time as they need drivers for everything. Newer MS Windows are much more Linux like that seldom ask for a driver.

I am still interested in boot loaders but with newer ones instead of the older one for Dos and Win98.