From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:15 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1991 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Saturday 24 July 2010 Number 1991 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: BootManager : Mike O'Connor **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:59:47 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: BootManager Nicholas Lysaght wrote: > Hi All. > > Got my letter back from Doug. This is what he said: > ----------- > "Pass on what you think might be useful. I wouldn't bother with Air > Boot. I think that will just make things more difficult down the road." > ---------- > > I will now pass on what (hopefully) will be relevant: > > --------------- > >>>> When Phase 1 of the install finished, and it tried to >>>> reboot, that's when the Win7 Boot Manager came up. > > I would have done a Ctrl-Alt-Del at that point, to force it to go to > the BM menu, rather than trying to do an automatic boot (which gets you > to the windows boot manager). Once you get BM taught that eCS is the > default boot drive, it should work. You could also set that using LVM > in the BM setup. > > Install windows, as it likes. > Use windows to shrink it's partitions > Use the windows version of DFSEE to verify that all is happiness, and > create the new partitions for eCS, leaving 7 Mb of empty space at the > very end of the disk (for BM, and if the disk is larger than about 500 > GB, it will need to be 15 Mb). Write a new MBR, keeping the tables. > Now, install eCS, and when it comes to the point where you need to run > LVM, you should be able to install Boot Manger, and set up the the > bootable disks, and make BM startable. At that time, make the volume > that you wish to install to the default boot volume (not sure if that > will actually work, but it should be okay if you use Ctrl-Alt-Del if > windows BM shows it's ugly head). > Before continuing, format the rest of the eCS volumes as you want them. > Now let the install go, and it should work, but you need to watch the > first reboot to be sure that it goes to eCS, and not to windows boot > manager. > ---------------------------- > > So there you have it. I have yet to try this one out myself, but it > would be great to keep our tools are within what we have. > > Regards > > NICK > > > Hi Nick, Those are my own sentiments - have been for a very long time (5+ years now - when System Commander failed to boot to JFS-bootable volumes!) Only problem is to have the installation media for W7 that will accept a DOS-partitioned disk, and not force an EFI system. I was about to respond with the following a little earlier - but I was chasing the following image I have since put up on my (Google) Picasaweb page: [long link!] {http://picasaweb.google dot com dot au/majilok/EFIPartitionedDisksWin7PlusECSPlusLinux?authkey=Gv1sRgCKjaiauEi_7DowE&feat=directlink} > Hi Nick, > > How does that AB procedure go with adding a Ubuntu 10.4 installation > that Alan would like also? > > Did you carefully examine those sectors after the MBR in the first > track of the disk (e.g. with GU's diskedit.exe), before shrinking the > Win7 volume? What geometry did DFSee show for the Win7 volume? Is it a > 1MB per cylinder geometry? Was it JFS or HPFS? > Regards, Mike -- Failed the exam for -------------------- MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert -------------------- Personal replies to any of : mikeoc (at) internode (dot) on (dot) net mikeoc (at) austarnet (dot) com (dot) au majilok (at) gmail (dot) com [Please ZIP any attachments, other than GIF/JPG or plain-text] If you are missing a response from me - check Tweed Heads WX status at: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml#skip -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===