Re: Boot Manager

<Vanguard> wrote in message news:_bSdnUktWqwRsc3fRVn-jQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3balvoF6j63i4U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several
>> OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together
>> with a Drive Overlay.
>
>
> No boot manager that usurps the MBR (master boot record) bootstrap area
> will cooperate with a drive overlay manager which also usurps the MBR
> bootstrap area. That is why many utilities will not cooperate with each
> if they all are trying to overwrite the MBR bootstrap code. You cannot
> use, for example, Powerquest (now Symantec) BootMagic with Symantec's
> GoBack because both want to be in the MBR bootstrap area. If you actually
> need to use the drive overlay manager, you'll need to find a boot manager
> that does NOT use the MBR bootstrap area (which means it might requires
> its own partition or share one).
>
> Of the boot managers that I have used, all usurped the MBR bootstrap area
> so, sorry, I cannot give a suggestion for one that resides wholly within a
> partition. You might need to consider getting a new motherboard with a
> newer BIOS that can actually support the large drives that you want to
> use, or use an IDE controller card that has newer BIOS to support the
> larger drives.

Xosl is a boot manager which can be installed in a dedicated partition.
However, it is not working for me regardless. It tends to get lost if I boot
from floppy or CD.

Teilhard.


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