[ltp] Partition Magic or DrakX on A21m?

[Tod Harter]

I haven't any experience with boot magic, so I can't comment on that, but I 
can say that both "grub" (the GNU boot loader, which Mandrake supplies as an 
alternative to lilo) and lilo itself are excellent boot loaders. I have run 
into situations where IDE drive geometries caused problems for lilo (the old 
1024 cylinder limit for instance), but I believe recent versions don't have 
any problems. 

Grub works very well too, and seemed to be a bit easier to configure for me. 
To the best of my knowledge there is no OS that lilo can't boot. It can also 
be used WITH one of the other boot loaders by putting it in the partitions 
boot sector instead of the MBR of the drive. The procedure in that case would 
be to install linux, install lilo to the partition boot sector, then install 
your other boot loader to the MBR. In that case I think you would want to 
just configure lilo to boot only Linux. 

In general its better to install other OS's before linux. Linux tends to be 
much more polite about not blowing other people's boot loaders etc away. 

On Thursday 13 September 2001 20:25, you wrote:
> Thanks for all the advice I have received on this.
>
> One more question about booting:
> If I use commercial thing, like partition magic, is it
> ok to use lilo or should I use the boot loader that
> comes with it, boot magic or whatever?
>
> Thanks
> Jimmy
>
> --- Peter Hayward <petehayw@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> > In my experience Partition Magic is Ok however it
> > had a major failing (for
> > me) whenever Bill released a new version of Windows(
> > mainly NT based)
> > Partition Magic would insist on not working and
> > would require a version
> > upgrade of it to work as advertised. It also had the
> > most yukky front end
> > , really in your face.
> >
> > I went looking around and someone else had suggested
> > a product called
> > "BootIt" (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com). This
> > product is less than
> > half the price of PM and does all that I need ie
> > creating partitions for
> > Linux (native and swap etc), works with any
> > operating system, provides a
> > pleasant interface at boot time, partition resizing,
> > sliding, security etc
> > etc.
> >
> > I now have a setup with Windows ME, Windows 2000,
> > Windows XP Pro and
> > Linux. I have tried various distros (Mandrake,
> > Caldera, Redhat) for Linux.
> >
> > When I first started, I had some questions from
> > their support people and
> > they responded very quickly.
> >
> > I'd recommend this product.
> >
> > PS My sympathy to all those effected by the attacks
> > in the US. It has
> > really had a big effect on the people of Australia
> > that I've met.
> >
> >
> > regards,
> > Peter Hayward                           E-mail:
> > petehayw@au.ibm.com
> > South Australia,
> > Australia 5063.
> >
> >
> > Please respond to linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> > Sent by:        owner-linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com
> > To:     linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> > cc:
> > Subject:        [ltp] Partition Magic or DrakX on
> > A21m?
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a A21m with windows 98 on it (FAT32). I want
> > to
> > install Mandrake 8.0 on this machine and it comes
> > with
> > a partition program called DrakX.
> >
> > Ideal situation is that I will get linux installed
> > without messing with my windows install and have a
> > dual boot system ready to go. Like a non-destructive
> > resize.
> >
> > I have heard good things about this partition magic
> > but was wondering if DrakX, or something else, would
> > do what I need.
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Jimmy
> > Gold Coast, Australia
> >
> > Condolences to those in NY and those connected.
> >
> >
> >
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