Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:47:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Question on W2000 & partitioning
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe you have it reversed - W2K will run from a
> logical partition, W98
> won't.
Hmm... I just read somewhere where someone was running
Win98 on a logical drive. Checking Google, I guess no
Windows OS is supposed to be able to run on a logical
drive. I guess that's what boot managers like lilo
and Boot Magic get around.
> But any combination can be accommodated with
> Boot Magic, or some other
> boot manager. I run W2K on the C:\ partition and
> W98se on the D:\ partition
> on a Sony laptop (for reasons best left unexplained)
> using Boot Magic with no problem.
I guess it's all in the boot manager. Wonder what
other boot mamagers people are using. I find Boot
Magic together with WinXp frustrating the way
partitions on a 2nd drive get re-lettered and set
hidden, active. Guess it's just another matter of
learning how the beasts work.
--- David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, as far as I've read, it appears that
> only XOSL (free) supports all
> combinations as well as the use of a disk manager
> such as EZ_Drive in addition
> to these other OSs (see faq or docs on the XOSL
> website). I don't know the
> specifics of whether the latest Boot Magic and other
> pay for programs will work
> with EZ-DRive installed, but certainly a few years
> ago when I looked into this,
> only XOSL would have the functionality to work with
> EZ-Drive. And since it is
> a moderately complex setup, I simply went back to
> switching boot partitions
> from DOS command line to run pqboot (partition
> magic's DOS boot partition
> switcher).
>
> Those with Linux know-how may have ideas as to how
> to get the Linux boot
> selector to work with EZ-Drive systems.
I think you've posted that before, haven't you David?
What are you using for a boot loader? I was
considering installing PQBoot on all my Windows
partitions. It seems it's more basic and fingers less
than PQ Magic. Though I know some people have figured
out how to get Linux ilo (referred to above?) to run
in Windows.
Matt
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