On Sunday 08 July 2001 06:08, Roger Hayter wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Andrew
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
> >On Sunday 08 July 2001 02:33, Lee wrote:
> >> Trying to install BootMagic on a Manrake 7.0 that is already installed
> >> on the hd. Plan on adding SuSe  later. Have BootMagic on a Partition
> >> Magic 4.0 disk. When I try to execute the file with
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >Not a flame, nor sarcasm. Why are you using xxx anything instead of lilo
> > or grub? I have never been able to follow why people are using these
> > non-linux partition & boot managers. I can follow that it's "what you're
> > used to" but lilo does the job, each time, every time, doesn't it?
>
> I don't know partition magic, but one thing System Commander can do is
> hide two windows partitions from each other.  This means that a) they
> don't mess with each other's configuration and b) you can boot windows
> or DOS from other than the first partition on the disk easily.  I am
> sure LILO can't do that, but can GRUB?

I'm pretty sure it can....   using the  hide/unhide and  makeactive  commands.



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+ Bruce S. Marshall  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Bellaire, MI         07/08/01 10:54  +
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