Yeah, it's not a problem.
Smartboot list all the HD all the partition on the boot up. Let you select
which partition you want to boot from, again, it ask you what *partition*
and not what OS, in case you have more than one OS on the same partition,
you need to have another boot manager in that partition.
Yes, this is a FREEWARE. I got it from Freshmeat.net. It's programmed by a
Chinese from China.
here's the link:
http://suzhe.home.chinaren.net/
It's a Chinese site, the Smart boot has English documentation though. To
those who read Chinese, use GB and not Big5.
I didn't bother with Smart Fdisk so I don't know it is exactly about, I only
get the Smart boot.
Since it is OS *independent*, it comes in several flavor. In case you don't
have DOS in your computer, get the Linux version. If you have Windows 95,
get the DOS version and have it installed on your MBR.
As simple as Smartboot can save you several hours of configuring and
troubleshooting.
Regards/
Jerome Tan
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>Behalf Of Holden Hao
>Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 6:25 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [plug] Dual boot problem
>
>
>Thanks for your reply to my post in PLUG but the dual boot thing was not my
>problem but somebody else's. His problem was that his win partition was on
>another drive and not on the same drive. We have the same setup and the
>remapping of the hard drives works fine for me. I am not sure if it worked
>for the other guy, though. I did not hear from him again.
>
>Anyway, I am interested in Smart Boot. If it is freeware, please send me
>it's URL.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Holden
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jerome Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:56 PM
>Subject: RE: [plug] Dual boot problem
>
>
>> Get a copy of Smart Boot. Use Smart Boot as your boot up
>manager, it is OS
>> independent.
>>
>> Here's my configuration:
>>
>> hda1=Linux Mandrake 7.0
>> hda3=Windows 2000
>> hda4=Windows 98
>> hda5=Linux swap file
>>
>> What Smart Boot manager does is to install itself to MBR, so better put
>Lilo
>> on Linux's partition only, *not* on MBR. Then after the boot up, Smart
>Boot
>> let you select which partition you want to boot from, Smart Boot doesn't
>> know which partition has OS, so it shows all the partition in your
>computer
>> and let you select.
>>
>> I'm sending you in private because I've problem posting to PLUG.
>>
>> Regards/
>> Jerome Tan
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://www.jtan.8m.com
>>
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>> >Behalf Of Holden Hao
>> >Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 12:19 PM
>> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >Subject: Re: [plug] Dual boot problem
>> >
>> >
>> >Use this for your lilo.conf
>> >---------------------------------
>> >boot=/dev/hda
>> >map=/boot/map
>> >install=/boot/boot.b
>> >prompt
>> >timeout=50
>> >default=linux
>> >
>> >image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
>> >label=linux
>> >read-only
>> >root=/dev/hda1
>> >
>> >other = /dev/hdb1
>> > label = win
>> > map-drive = 0x80
>> > to = 0x81
>> > map-drive = 0x81
>> > to = 0x80
>> > table = /dev/hdb
>> >--------------------------------
>> >Don't forget to run lilo to activate your settings.
>> >
>> >
>> >> other=/dev/hdb1
>> >> label=win
>> >
>> >This will not work because your win partition is on another hard drive.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >-
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