IBM boot manager will keep M$98 in its place, boot magic seems only to work with
ms osesses it is ms,
a few months ago an ms enthusiast completely messed up my system (removed my
partitions) then to make amends re installed os2, 98 and linux using b magic two
days later os2 would not boot, I had to start again with ibm b manager which runs
ok under lilo. no problems since
peter
Greg Stewart wrote:
> Don't know about the Norton thing... I switched from Win 98 to NT4.0, and
> haven't had the problem. It seemd as though Win98 wanted complete control
> over the entire computer, whereas Windows NT, having been born a bit
> earlier, and the product of a slghtly less greed-infested OS, did not quite
> understand how to get that accomplished.
>
> In all, I've felt safer with WinNT's lack of adventurist rants and tantrums;
> and it's predisposition torward being a bit fussier 'bout the many
> un-identified individuals to whom it simply hands my closely guarded
> information is a minor plus as well.
>
> Damn it! If only I could get everything at work converted to Linux, I
> wouldn't have to worry about these things! :-)
>
> --Greg
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Not to be defending windows but it was most likly the way your
> > anti-virus was configured that keep changing your boot record back to its
> > orig. state.
> >
> > Bill just thinks he's all powerful. Norton knows He Is. (-:
> >
> > Charles
> >
> > > > I had a bizarre thought today. What would happen if Mickeysoft
> > > > decided that a nice feature of their operating system would be to
> > > > rewrite the boot record every time you booted Windows. This could be
> > > > referred to as part of the "maintenance" cycle.
> > >
> > > In a few words: I thought they already did that! :-)
> > >
> > > I had a windows 98 installation that consistently re-wrote the
> > > disk-signature of my dual boot system's 2nd hard drive, and kept
> rendering
> > > that damned drive's partitions hidden... so , I couldn't boot from it
> > until
> > > I went into partition magic, and made than active again!
> > >
> > > Need I say that I formatted the win98 partition very soon after that?
> And,
> > I
> > > haven't touched Win98 since!
> > >
>
>
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