All those M$ bases Boot managers suck. Stick with fips and lilo and you
will not be having problems now or in the future. And two different
ones on the same machine spell disaster.
Wendell Gragg wrote:
>
> Charles,
>
> Thanks for the reply! I guess I just don't understand System Commander. I
> used to use Boot Magic and someone told me this was better. I also had used
> an older version of Linux that was on this drive when I installed SC and it
> did not pick it up, which confused me.
>
> Anyway, I will completely de-install system commander and reinstall it and
> see what happens. I'll let you know.
>
> Wendell
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System
> Commander
>
> > Wendell
> > Did you start the Linux installation from SystemCommander. If you did
> not
> > then manually adding Linux to the boot options will not work you will need
> > to re-install SysCo in order for it to pick up the Linux boot record.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Wendell Gragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 10:28 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System Commander
> >
> >
> > > Apparently I have done something wrong here. In used System Commander
> > 2000
> > > to partition my 2nd Hard drive as follows:
> > >
> > > 1st partition: /boot 100 MB
> > > 2nd Partition / >10 GB
> > > 3rd partion: swap 128 MB
> > >
> > > I then installed linux mandrake using Drakx. When it asked me about
> Lilo,
> > I
> > > told it to put it in the /boot. It did not ask me about whether to
> place
> > it
> > > in the MBR or not. Everything seemed to go ok, but when I rebooted and
> > > System Commander came up, I interrupted it and added linux, telling it
> to
> > > boot from the first partition. When I tried to boot from it, System
> > > Commander told me that the boot record was bad and would not boot it.
> > >
> > > Can someone give me an idea as to what I may have done wrong?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Wendell Gragg
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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