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The OS/2 program was called Boot Manager not Partition Magic, though
old versions of Partition Magic could install it for you, and I think
the new versions can still configure it if it's present.
The Boot Manager was part of OS/2's fdisk.exe, and therefore to
install it, all you need is an OS/2 boot disk with fdisk.exe on it.
I've got a disk image of an OS/2 boot disk on my laptop that I build
onsite and use when a partition refuses to budge or I want to set up
a machine to dual boot.
Let me know if anyone wants it.
On a single HDD I installed Boot Manager to primary, Win98 & 2K to
primary, DOS to a very small primary, Linux to extended, LILO into
that extended partition, and had Boot Manager boot Linux from the
extended partition. This gets around the primary limitation. I could
have also booted OS/2 from another logical in that extended partition
as these are the two OS's that allow it.
Thanks,
Grant
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of
Andrew Eager
Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2001 12:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] question... multiboot etc.
Michael wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Its come to the point where I require to rebuild my personal
> workstation. I was thinking of having the following setup. Just
> wanted to run it by a few of you for comments.
>
> hda
> windows98 (primary Xmb's)
> windows200 pro (primary Xmb's)
>
> hdab
> linux
>
> hdc
> cdrom
OK, I'll throw my bit in. This is actually something that all (6 in
total) of my machines do. If you want to keep 3 different OS's on
the
one boot disk, all in primary partitions I reackon this is the way to
go:
hda1 - Partition magic (or equivalent boot manager)
hda2 - OS 1 (QNX)
hda3 - OS 2 (DOS / WIN)
hda4 - OS 3 (Linux - can be split into logical drives; hda5
/boot, hda6 / )
hdb, hdc etc do with as you like.
While it wastes one primary partition (with only 1 cylinder needed on
that partition) it does quite nicely ensure that only 1 primary
partition is available to the system at boot. In addition, you can
use
lilo as well as long as it is installed on the 'first sector of boot
partition' and NOT the MBR.
Partition magic can also be used to boot from a partion on hdb,
Sounds like a plug for Partition magic, but I actually discovered it
while installing OS/2. It is now the only thing from OS/2 that I
use.
Regards,
Andrew E.
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