[Novalug] Dual booting safely

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Sun May 20 15:55:54 EDT 2007


Depends on what you want to do.

Each partition runs a different version of Linux. There are hundreds of 
distros out there, and I am experimenting with quite a few.

Needless to say, I have partition and boot management down to a science.

JIM

Jay Hart wrote:
> 15 partitions each???  Thats a little crazy if you ask me.
>
> Sure, it makes sense to do this to prevent one bad file system from corrupting
> others, but, if your disk is going bad, than all partitions on that drive
> suffer.
>
> MTC,
>
> Jay
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>> I only scanned it briefly. My comments are:
>>
>> [1] what is this concern with "safety"? It's not a dangerous or
>> difficult thing to do.
>> [2] don't try and teach VI commands in your page. that knowledge is
>> assumed, or you can write another paper for that. It just muddies what
>> you are trying to do.
>> [3] makeactive may or may not be required; I never use it, and I have
>> two Windows XP systems running on two separate partitions on my disk.
>> [4] Only XP or Vista matters. Windows 95 or 98 are obsolete.
>>
>> My general strategy is to have one Rescue Linux system that owns the
>> MBR, and to chainload to every other possible partition, even other
>> Linux systems. They can write their boot code in their own partition.
>> Sure, you go thru two (or more) grub boots, but the first one never changes.
>>
>> All my computers have two disks each with a full complement of 15
>> partitions each!
>>
>> JIM
>>
>> Michael Hughes wrote:
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>>> Hello Friends and Luggers,
>>>
>>> I posted a paper on how to dual boot Linux with Windows /safely/.
>>> Please take a look and tell me what you think.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> -Mike
>>>
>>> http://itismike.com/documents/dualbootsafely.html
>>> http://itismike.com/documents/editbootconfig.html
>>> http://itismike.com/documents/rescue_from_saved_grub.conf.html
>>>
>>> PS: the link to http://vilearn.org seems to be dead - does anyone know
>>> if this site goes down often?
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