a friend of mine recently installed xp on his computer, but now whenever he starts up it askes him if he wants to load xp or 98.
Anything he can do about this?

What does he want to do?

Remove 98 or just remove the boot choice?

If he wants to keep both systems the simplest thing is to keep that step to boot.

Otherwise there is alot of text out there:

If you don't mind keeping the Win98 boot partition in place

default boot xp 98

Subject: How to remove multiboot option

remove 98

Just to post a few