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Re: Boot Manager location

Re: Boot Manager location
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:36:45 -040
On 03/14/08 02:27 pm Eeva Häkkinen wrote:

> just a simple question: are there requirements about where BM can be
> located. If I remember correctly, in OS/2 you had to put it within first
> 1024 cylinders. At the moment I have XP taking up the first 10 G of the 
> hard disk and I know it doesn't like to be moved. Would it be a good idea
> to install eCS on a secondary disk?   

Not sure about having to be within first 1024 cylinders, but it does 
have to be on the first or second drive. I don't see a problem with 
installing it on the second drive.

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Boot Manager location
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:27:18 GMT
Hello, 

just a simple question: are there requirements about where BM can be
located. If I remember correctly, in OS/2 you had to put it within first
1024 cylinders. At the moment I have XP taking up the first 10 G of the 
hard disk and I know it doesn't like to be moved. Would it be a good idea
to install eCS on a secondary disk?    
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Re: Boot Manager location
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:46:58 GMT
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:27:18 UTC, eeva.hakkinen@gmail.com (Eeva Häkkinen) wrote:


> Hello, 
> 
> just a simple question: are there requirements about where BM can be
> located. If I remember correctly, in OS/2 you had to put it within first
> 1024 cylinders. 

That is older limits, which are not a problem on modern hardware.
I have had BM as last partition on a 160GB driver without any problems.

> At the moment I have XP taking up the first 10 G of the 
> hard disk and I know it doesn't like to be moved. Would it be a good idea
> to install eCS on a secondary disk?    

Just put BM as last partition on disk, and you will be fine.
You can install eCS on any disk you like.


-- 
  Allan.

It is better to close your mouth, and look like a fool,
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Re: Boot Manager location
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:27:46 -070
Eeva Häkkinen wrote:
> Hello,
> just a simple question: are there requirements about where BM can be
> located. If I remember correctly, in OS/2 you had to put it within first
> 1024 cylinders. At the moment I have XP taking up the first 10 G of the 
> hard disk and I know it doesn't like to be moved. Would it be a good idea
> to install eCS on a secondary disk?   

I have a T60 with an 80GB drive.  As received XP was the first partition 
and the recovery stuff was the last.  I shrank XP down to 20GB and 
installed BM as far to the end as possible - i.e just before the rescue 
partition.  No problems with it.

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Re: Boot Manager location
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:13:31 GMT
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:46:58 UTC, "Allan"
<allan2@warpspeed.dyndns.dk>
wrote:

 
> Just put BM as last partition on disk, and you will be fine.
> You can install eCS on any disk you like.

You may end up with problems when you have the extended partiton 
between primary partitons.

Set up your harddisk like

primary
primary
primary 
extended
   logical drives

IBM bootmanager will be created on an empty room of a primary partiton
in size of exactly one zylinder. It does not matter if the free space 
for that is on the place one can create the 1., 2. or 3. primary. 

-- 
Tschau/Bye
Herbert

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