On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>ajx wrote: > >>>Graham Banks wrote: > >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>><snip> > >>>> > >>>>>Anybody got a boot setup allowing different combinations of > >>>>>disks/partitions to be accessible in windows & linux? I've > >>>>>got two hard disks, the second of which is online only for > >>>>>occasional backups. The first has 5 partitions: a > >>>>>windows one, a dos one and 3 linux ones (in that order). > >>>>> > >>>>>At present I use a boot manager for Windows, called xosl, > >>>>>which manages the dos/windows side of this perfectly. > >>>> > >>>><snip> > >>>> > >>>>I currently have 1 of my computers running win98SE, > >>>>win2000 (for program compatibility) and MDK9.1 > >>>>I use XOSL as a boot manager on this machine as I can > >>>>setup passwords for the different oses and make booting > >>>>the winblows partitions a little more secure. > >>>> > >>>>All I did was to install lilo on the MDK partition that > >>>>contains the /boot. I then pointed XOSL to this partition, > >>>>labelled it Mandrake (as the default os of course). I set > >>>>the bios to boot only fron hard drive and viola! - works > >>>>flawlessly (did so with MDK8.2 and MDK9.0 as well) I set > >>>>lilo to boot after 2 seconds and removed the options for the > >>>>windows boot options. > >> > >>But all you have done really is replace the windblows bootloader > >> with this XOSL loader,and I'm guessing, in the MBR of whichever > >> first partition is Windblows , and then installed lilo as a > >> linux loader in chain loader fashion. Now, perhaps this XOSL > >> loader is more secure than windblows own, but if so I doubt by > >> much, since password configuration to both windblows has been a > >> feature of W98 and W2K from the start.You only have to choose to > >> set it. So why bother with all this XOSL stuff, just let lilo be > >> installed in the MBR of which ever windblows OS is first and > >> chain load as before. > > > >I think he wants different combinations of FAT partitions to be > > visible in DOS and Windows. lilo will let the Microsoft systems, > > when booting, make their own decisions as to what is visible, > > which is precisely what he does not want. Now there is a utility > > called letterassign that runs in Windows, (and probably in Dos > > too, but I'm not sure) that allows you to tell a Windows system > > what partitions it is to see, and which partitions are to > > correspond to which so-called "drive" letters. I've used it with > > Windows 98SE, and it seems to work. > > > >-- hendrik > > OK, but I have never had any problem with getting any windblows OS > to recognise any number of FAT 32 partition, whether before or > after linux partitions. So it must be in DOS itself, but does > anyone actually use DOS anymore ?, and in anycase your sayng DOS > cannot recognise FAT32 partitions ?, really ?
Really. In fact, I don't think win95 can, either. Fat32 wasn't 'invented' then.
FAT32 Introduced in Win95 OSR actually.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q154/9/97.asp&NoWebContent=1
And yes people still use DOS. I have a couple of DOS systems being used as dialup routers - more secure for this purpose than any of the network enabled OS's.
Frank
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