[SLE] Re: [[SLE] BootMagic and SuSE 6.3]
Forget LILO, forget BootMagic, forget System Commander ... I have tried them
all over the past seven years+ of dual booting ... the one I strongly
recommend is BlueSky's Power Boot. It is cheap, and resides entirely on the
MBR (so you don't need a boot partition). Most importantly, it will allow you
to boot any partition on any drive (good to know if you are trying to boot
above cyl. 1024). Maybe BootMagic has finally caught up (I looked at this
product when it first came out) but I have never had reason to look at any
other product since installing Power Boot.
With any of these programs, you will install lilo on the logical drive within
the extended partition, and then using the boot management program specify
that logical partition as bootable.
To use PB, run the install program and reboot. When you reboot, you will get a
boot screen that you can use to specify which partitions are bootable and
thereby create a boot menu very quickly. You will most likely not even need to
read the documentation (but you probably should skim it first). There are no
configuration files at all except what resides on the MBR.
You can get Power Boot at www.power-boot.com
Leenux Lizzard
Has anybody had success with BootMagic that handles Windows and Linux ?? I am trying to get this to work but I have not been able to boot the machine using the BootMagic OS Loader. My Linux installation is on one of the logical drives on an extended partition. Should I install LILO on the extended partition or on the logical drive inside the extended partition.? thanks.
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"Jeffery S.Norman" wrote:
Forget LILO, forget BootMagic, forget System Commander ... I have tried them all over the past seven years+ of dual booting ... the one I strongly recommend is BlueSky's Power Boot. It is cheap, and resides entirely on the MBR (so you don't need a boot partition). Most importantly, it will allow you to boot any partition on any drive (good to know if you are trying to boot above cyl. 1024). Maybe BootMagic has finally caught up (I looked at this product when it first came out) but I have never had reason to look at any other product since installing Power Boot.
One other question. Does PowerBoot enable you to simulate more than 3 primary partitions on the primary drive and thus run several varieties of SCO Free Unix? SCO Free Unix insists on running in a primary partition on the primary drive. Paul -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
"Jeffery S.Norman" wrote:
Forget LILO, forget BootMagic, forget System Commander ... I have tried them all over the past seven years+ of dual booting ... the one I strongly recommend is BlueSky's Power Boot. It is cheap, and resides entirely on the MBR (so you don't need a boot partition). Most importantly, it will allow you to boot any partition on any drive (good to know if you are trying to boot above cyl. 1024).
With all due respect, I doubt very much that any software can do all that in the mere 464 bytes available for data and code outside the partition table in the confines of the Master Boot Sector (aka Master Boot Record). They may have a hidden partition somewhere, for the remainder of the code they need, and this should show under close examination of the used disk space. There are hardware parameters that can not be ignored. Jan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Interesting, but with PB, how do you pass parameters to the kernel at boot time? Avi "Jeffery S.Norman" wrote:
To use PB, run the install program and reboot. When you reboot, you will get a boot screen that you can use to specify which partitions are bootable and thereby create a boot menu very quickly. You will most likely not even need to read the documentation (but you probably should skim it first). There are no configuration files at all except what resides on the MBR.
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