NT and Microsoft can go to hell!

[Robert Nicholson]

Well I guess I was expecting a little too much of NT when I just tried
to shift partitions around.

The plan was to simply backup a data partition and move it by creating a
new data partition on the same drive and restoring the backup. I figured
I'd be able to get the drive lettering sorted out.

I figured that once I removed my existing data partition that that would
free up that drive letter for the new data partition. Well Disk
Administrator decided to shuffle the letters around to it's liking such
that my boot partitions drive letter and my other drive letters were all
different. At no time did I expect DA to change my existing drive letter
configuration. So now the registry has all these references to totally
invalid drive letters. Thanks Microsoft for drive letters!

To top it off I agreed to write the signature that DA likes to write to
the drive in order to operate on it. and this has completely hoarked my
Debian Linux Boot record. I guess Linux requires that part of the boot
record that Microsoft assumes no other OS doesn't. Thanks Microsoft!

Disk Administrator and NT are about as reliable as Active X is secure.

I'm now am adding the following to my Resume.

I will not work with any Microsoft products!

And I'd like to remove every single Microsoft OS I currently own. Right
now that's 95,NT,DOS. I run System Commander under DOS and that's really
why I need DOS. So, with that in mind. Is it possible to use OSBS with
the following OS's?

NeXTSTEP 3.3
OpenStep 4.1 Mach
Linux 

Please help relieve me from Microsoft's Mediocrity.

Does anybody know how to run lilo once you've executed a shell from the
rescue disk? Basically I'm having a problem because / is the /ramdisk0
and not my harddrive. I think I need to rerun Lilo. However, the error
I'm getting, Thanks to NT, is 

Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on 08:13


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Re: NT and Microsoft can go to hell!

[John T. Larkin]

On Feb 24, Robert Nicholson wrote
 Does anybody know how to run lilo once you've executed a shell from the
 rescue disk? Basically I'm having a problem because / is the /ramdisk0
 and not my harddrive. I think I need to rerun Lilo. 

I don't know if this is the recommended usage, but I just did it and
it works.  Mount your root parition in /mnt.   Edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
and change all of the paths from /boot/... to /mnt/boot/... etc.  
I also had to create a /boot directory.  Then run
/mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
It will create a file in /boot.  I just moved that file to /mnt/boot,
reset the computer, and everything works fine and dandy now.  But don't
forget to change /etc/lilo.conf once you reboot.
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NT and Microsoft can go to hell!

[Gleb Arshinov]

 Robert == Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Robert Well I guess I was expecting a little too much of NT when
Robert I just tried to shift partitions around.

sad, yet common story snipped

Ahh, the beauties of NT Disk Administrator :-) Which version of NT are
you using, 3.51? It had this bug for disks with more than 2 logical
partitions.  I am really curious if M$ left it in there for 4.0 (I am
too afraid to try it out myself).  For full description of the problem
and solution check out:
http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q135/3/08.htm

Gleb

PS I coulnd't even use fdisk from Linux/OS/2/Dos after I had this
problem. Norton Disk Doctor was reporting physically damaged disk.  I
had to fiddle with Norton Disk Editor to even get fdisk to work.
Gotta love NT


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