[newbie] (newbie) Start-up Screen

[Evan Holt]

Hi there,

I think the start-up screens for Corel Linux and 
Storm Linux are great, where you get to choose your OS, rather than the cruddy 
text boot manager. Is there any way to make your own (other than using 
BootMagic)?

Thanks,

Evan

Re: [newbie] (newbie) Start-up Screen

[Michael Holt]

I don't know about making your own, probably need some programming
experience?  There's also System Commander, I believe they offer a boot
manager.  I'm using the BeOS boot manager, only drawback with that would
be that you would have to install BeOS to configure it.  You could
uninstall BeOS after that and use partition magic to reclaim the space
and just keep the boot manager.  Probably the easiest thing though would
be to edit your /etc/lilo.conf file and change the labels to a one digit
number for example, so that when you boot, you could just type a single
digit instead of typing a long line.

I don't know if that helped at all, but I am curious, why not use
BootMagic?
Mike

Evan Holt wrote:

 Hi there, I think the start-up screens for Corel Linux and Storm Linux
 are great, where you get to choose your OS, rather than the cruddy
 text boot manager. Is there any way to make your own (other than using
 BootMagic)? Thanks, Evan

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Re: [newbie] (newbie) Start-up Screen

[Eric MC DECLERCK]

 Evan Holt wrote:
 
 Hi there,
 
 I think the start-up screens for Corel Linux and Storm Linux are
 great, where you get to choose your OS, rather than the cruddy text
 boot manager. Is there any way to make your own (other than using
 BootMagic)?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Evan
You are right about Corel, very great choice  !
To Mandrake for setup a similar start-up screen.
Eric

Re: [newbie] (newbie) Start-up Screen

[Alan Shoemaker]

EvanI just installed storm (using the cd that came with
MaximumLinux Magazine) and thought the same as you about its
version of lilo.  It's on my list of things to do to see if I
can lift the lilo out of storm and use it in Mandrake.  If you
beat me to it, let me know how it works out, ok?

Alan


 Evan Holt wrote:
 
 Hi there,
 
 I think the start-up screens for Corel Linux and Storm Linux
 are great, where you get to choose your OS, rather than the
 cruddy text boot manager. Is there any way to make your own
 (other than using BootMagic)?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Evan