[newbie] Boot magic not so magical
Hi, I've followed all the install instructions carefully, told the right partition to lilo etc. but when I boot from the HD I get BTMAGIC.IMG not found and then windows boots by default. Anyone else had this problem or know a solution? Samantha
Re: [newbie] Boot Magic prompts for a serial number but Icannotfind it
Thanks' Roger. Now the big problem is to get get BootMagic to show Linux. I still cannot configure it with Linux. Which version of windows are you using? If you are using NT, I can tell you a quick way to set up the NT bootloader to boot linux. It works great and if you've got NT on your box, then you've already paid for it! Mike
Re: [newbie] Boot Magic prompts for a serial number but I cannot find it
I had to write an email to QUE to get the serial number. It seems they forgot to include that minor detail ;-) They got back to me in very short order. Dacia --- Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, It's nice to back, despite the slow speed. I'm sure this will be corrected very soon. I have been trying to install Boot Magic. It came bundled on a CD with Partition Magic in the back of a book called: The MultiBoot Handbook by Que. Great read. Where is the serial number? I looked all through the book. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Boot Magic prompts for a serial number but I cannotfind it
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, It's nice to back, despite the slow speed. I'm sure this will be corrected very soon. I have been trying to install Boot Magic. It came bundled on a CD with Partition Magic in the back of a book called: The MultiBoot Handbook by Que. Great read. Where is the serial number? I looked all through the book. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Romanyou need to ask Que and/or Powerquest. Alan Roman, Use the same serial number as you used for Partition Magic, which is what it needs on the full version. (Apologies in advance if it doesn't work!!) Roger
Re: [newbie] Boot Magic prompts for a serial number but I cannot find it
Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 What is a registered Linux user (I have an Idea) and how does one get registered? Bill
Re: [newbie] Boot Magic prompts for a serial number but I cannot find it
Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, It's nice to back, despite the slow speed. I'm sure this will be corrected very soon. I have been trying to install Boot Magic. It came bundled on a CD with Partition Magic in the back of a book called: The MultiBoot Handbook by Que. Great read. Where is the serial number? I looked all through the book. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Romanyou need to ask Que and/or Powerquest. Alan
Re: [newbie] Boot Magic prompts for a serial number but I cannot find it
Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, It's nice to back, despite the slow speed. I'm sure this will be corrected very soon. I have been trying to install Boot Magic. It came bundled on a CD with Partition Magic in the back of a book called: The MultiBoot Handbook by Que. Great read. Where is the serial number? I looked all through the book. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 That's okay. I was emailed the numbers. Thanks, -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] boot magic/LILO
KompuKitedit the first line of your /etc/lilo.conf file to point at the partition you want lilo installed on and then run /sbin/lilo. Alan KompuKit wrote: Just installed Partition Magic 5.0...along with boot magic I had my LILO on the MBR of the master disk,partitioned into two parts...with linux being the second part. need to know...HOW to now...configure LILO to install instead... to the linux partso I can use boot magic...instead. anyone know how? -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
[newbie] boot magic/LILO
Just installed Partition Magic 5.0...along with boot magic I had my LILO on the MBR of the master disk,partitioned into two parts...with linux being the second part. need to know...HOW to now...configure LILO to install instead... to the linux partso I can use boot magic...instead. anyone know how? -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
Re: [newbie] Boot magic
WayneI noticed your earlier message about this and didn't respond because I really had nothing constructive to say. Actually I still don't. :-) Anyway, I use BootMagic on 4 different machines. It's the version which comes with either version 4 or version 5 of Partition Magic (as far as I can tell there's no difference). One machine boots between dos 6.22 and windows98 on a single ide drive, another boots windowsnt, windows98, and Linux Mandrake 7 on a single ide drive, a third machine boots between windowsnt, windows98, and Linux Mandrake 7 on two ide drives (and there's some unpartitioned space left for an upcoming BeOS 4.5 install), and finally a fourth machine that boots between dos 6.22, windows98 se, Linux Mandrake 7 and Storm Linux 2000 on dual scsi drives. I've never experienced anything like you describe. I wonder if you are using the same version as I use or maybe the one that comes bundled with MacMillan's Mandrake 7 distribution? Just a thought. :-) Alan Wayne Petherick wrote: I have to ask the following question. SO many people use boot magic here and claim its usefulness I feel I should share my horror story. Perhaps someone can tell me how to fix it. I installed BM and run the software to install the boot manager. When it detected my OS's, it found 2 windows partitions (true but only one is bootable) and no linux partitions. I removed the second windows partition from the manager as I didn't want to boot to it (no need) and added my linux partition. When I restarted, and selected linux, it said something to the effect of loading linux but then just hung. It started windows OK, but the only way to get back in to linux was through my boot disk. When I did go back into windows I noticed that the second windows drive I had removed from the boot manager was totally gone! It trashed the partition completely and I lost all of the software I had sitting on that drive. Any suggestions? Wayne
Re: [newbie] Boot magic
Ouch! Thanks for the warning, I for one, will steer clear! Mike Wayne Petherick wrote: I have to ask the following question. SO many people use boot magic here and claim its usefulness I feel I should share my horror story. Perhaps someone can tell me how to fix it. I installed BM and run the software to install the boot manager. When it detected my OS's, it found 2 windows partitions (true but only one is bootable) and no linux partitions. I removed the second windows partition from the manager as I didn't want to boot to it (no need) and added my linux partition. When I restarted, and selected linux, it said something to the effect of loading linux but then just hung. It started windows OK, but the only way to get back in to linux was through my boot disk. When I did go back into windows I noticed that the second windows drive I had removed from the boot manager was totally gone! It trashed the partition completely and I lost all of the software I had sitting on that drive. Any suggestions? Wayne -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
