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| From | BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.laptops |
| Subject | Re: Partitions... |
| Date | 2011-11-08 08:44 -0600 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <j9bf84$29u$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <Xns9F96A7EC1E2EAaaaalifecom@130.133.4.11> <j99gts$4au$1@dont-email.me> <Xns9F9763F5DDE60aaaalifecom@130.133.4.11> <j9b5rl$5gq$1@dont-email.me> |
On 11/8/2011 6:04 AM, mike wrote:
> The problem with dual boot is the boot loader. If you understand the
> subtleties
> of it, it's trivial. If you don't, it will give you grief.
> With one bootable partition, you can boot the install cd and fix up boot
> problems.
> With two bootable partitions, each "fixit program" wants to repair itself
> without fixing the other one.
> Again, if you understand the subtleties, it's not all that hard...so I'm
> told. I never figgered it out.
> More than once, I've had to rebuild everything because I couldn't figure
> out
> how to get the bootloader to do what I wanted...but that was GRUB.
I agree with you Mike. Although I can fix any dualboot that any program
messed up. I still prefer having no dualboot on any drive. I rather swap
drives to be honest with you for the reasons you mentioned. Although
since I generally have multiple same models, this is rare to do as well.
--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v3.0
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3
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Re: Partitions... mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 13:00 -0800
Re: Partitions... JakeD <fgdfgdfg@ghghfgh.com> - 2011-11-08 09:52 +0000
Re: Partitions... mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 04:04 -0800
Re: Partitions... JakeD <fgdfgdfg@ghghfgh.com> - 2011-11-08 13:39 +0000
Re: Partitions... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-08 08:15 -0600
Re: Partitions... "RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 09:38 -0600
Re: Partitions... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-08 10:02 -0600
Re: Partitions... mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 12:50 -0800
Re: Partitions... wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-11-09 20:31 +0000
Re: Partitions... mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-09 12:49 -0800
Re: Partitions... wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-11-12 09:38 +0000
Re: Partitions... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-08 08:44 -0600
Re: Partitions... wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-11-09 20:27 +0000
Re: Partitions... Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 15:26 -0400
Re: Partitions... mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 12:21 -0800
Re: Partitions... Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 19:33 -0400
Re: Partitions... mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 17:32 -0800
Re: Partitions... wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-11-09 20:24 +0000
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