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Date:	Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:16:30 PDT7
From:	"Gary Wong" <gary.wong@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: System files, MBRs, boot managers

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Ron Higgin? (255 primary partitions sounds too good to be true)

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:04:18 PDT7, J. R. Fox wrote:

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>> > . . . *without* trampling all over the LVM partition signatures.
>
>Peter replied:
>
>> Did you ask V Communications if SC is LVM compatible? I'd check first .
>> . .
>
>On numerous occasions. Even called them a few times, which they now make
>rather difficult. And I know of others who did likewise. They hemmed and
>hawwed, said they'd look into it and get back to us, never did. When we persisted,
>nothing ever came of it. They shined us on.
>
>> > You are overlooking the BOOT-IT family of products,
>>
>> I searched for BOOT-IT in Google and got plenty of weird hits but not
>> any boot managers. Do you have more info on this so I can find it?
>
>Like I keep telling Steven, 'Google is not ALWAYS your friend.' (That
>goes for search engines in general, but try the meta-search site DOGPILE
>once in a while.) Check out these:
>
>(older versions)
>http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/oldsite/BOOTITL.HTM
>
>(current product)
>http://members.shaw.ca/bootitng/
>
>(company site)
>http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/examples.html
>
>I forget, but it was probably either BOOTIT or POWERBOOT that claimed
>to have a scheme that could give you up to 255 boot partitions ! (Maybe even
>255 Primary ones.) If my recollection is correct, that would be an amazing feat
>of legerdemain. I remember asking about that on CS, and getting the answer --
>from someone like Trevor or Ron _____ (can't recall his last name right now,
>but he was in N. Calif., and also at that rarefied Steven-esque level) -- that it
>was also a rather *risky* one.
>
>> > one called K-BOOT (shareware, possibly no longer around),
>>
>> Google couldn't find K-BOOT either. Do you have more info like the
>> manufacturer or a url?
>
>That goes back a ways. It used to be mentioned sometimes, along with
>PowerBoot, on the old Compuserve OS/2 forums. (I don't recall seeing
>your name there on any posts, so maybe not one of your haunts at that time ?)
>I would have to dig through a lot of old message logs to find a lead on them,
>which I'm willing to do when I can get around to it, if you're really that
>curious. As I said, the odds are they are defunct.
>
>> > and a current competitor of SC called OS Selector
>> > (from Acronis), recently mentioned by Ray.
>>
>> Hah! Easily found, didn't even need Google
>
>Easier than that. They are on the shelf at Frys, right next to SC. About 50
>bucks, compared to 80 for SC.
>
>> and thanks for making me aware of it. Notably they say they support
>> OS/2 (though no mention of LVM). $45 at their online store.
>
>The thanks should go to Ray Davison. I'd never heard of them 'til he mentioned
>it. Actually, I scoured the box surface pretty closely, and could find no reference
>at all to OS/2 or HPFS. They did mention a bunch of other things they DID
>support, so I moved on. LVM ? I doubt it very much. JFS ? Fuhgeddaboutit !
>
>> I should add some columns to my list:
>
>Yes, those sound like significant considerations. In my search of newsgroup
messages
>on this subject, going back to 1999, I found some disappointed comments about
>AIRBOOT, serious limitations regarding many of the others, and a sort of consensus
>that SC was apt to be the best choice. They may have been mining this product
category
>the longest, the most diligently, bringing the most resources to bear on the issues
>involved.
>
>
>Jordan
>
>
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