Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:53:12 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Question on W2000 & partitioning
Hey Philip... I'm going to have to save this, and go offline and digest it all. I've been having more problems of all sorts in the past few days, and some may indeed be caused by my hiding the W2K primary partition, creating another primary partition after it and installing W98, and then using Partition Magic to set each active and hide the other in order to boot eacj OS. The reason I'm using PM to set the active partition and hide the other to boot each OS is, 1. I had done it successfully long ago with Windows OSs before W2K and WXP came along. And 2. Because I wasn't able to get either BootMagic or PQBoot to function properly. I've had a number of problems switching OSs using these methods. Particulary with W2K complaining booting into the desktop that the "User Interface DLL failed to load msgina.dll" Most of the times rebooting fixes the problem. But I lost the entire partition at one point with that one of the likely culprits. Mmore later. Matt --- Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Hanson wrote: > .....<snip> > > Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ....<snip> > > What are you using as a boot manager Philip... > > something in W2000? > > OS/2 boot manager goes first, allowing me to select > Win2K's boot > manager, various OS/2 versions and (currently) two > Linux boot managers > (lilo). > > Then, Win2K's boot manager allows Win2K full install > on C:, Win98 on E:, > Win2K w/o IE / Outlook / Netmeeting / etc, from G:, > and a Win2K recovery > console. > > The two lilo bootmanagers are for Mandrake 9.2 and > VectorLinux 4.3. Both > include the stock kernels plus kernels patched for > the PCMCIA floppy and > one for NETBEUI support. > > All in all I got three (four) boot managers, for > (...counting....) 9 > operating systems. > > If you think this is a bit overdone, you are right. > My excuse is that > the Lib is a hobby object rather than production > machine. > Nevertheless in the next weeks/ months I'm gonna > clean up and simplify > things. > > > > As for a restore, I doubt whether you can simply > > restore a Win2K > > > from one partition to another one. It is not > quite > > enough that the > > > drive letters are the same (as the registry is <snip> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
