Re: [Sheflug] Re: Multiboot Question

["Netsonic" <netsonic [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Steve,
> I once had a similar experience many years ago. This is going back to
> the days of ms-win3.1. IBM brought out OS2 WARP and I bought a copy to
> try it out. I removed win3.1 installed OS2. All ok. Then I found some
> programs were lacking so I created two partitions and multi-booting into
> either win3.1 or OS2.
> Some programs wouldn't work and curiously win3.1 and OS2 reported
> different partition sizes. After a lot of digging around and reading I
> found the answer. Whatever programs/operating system you use to make
> partitions, use the same one to delete/alter the same partition. Don't
> use operating system 1 to create/alter partitions that are going to have
> operating system 2 etc. Some of the modern partitioning tools are better
> now but perhaps you ran into the same problem that I had. e.g. your
> expierence of tool 1 saying it had deleted a partition while tool 2 said
> it was still there.
>
> Peter C.

Thanks Peter,

Thats definitely another idea to consider for this sort of thing.

What I've actually done this time is used 2 third party programs; I haven't
really been into using OS installed ones up to now.

Partition Magic is my favourite usually, and I've used that to create 3
unformatted partitions. (This program is sadly way out of date now and is
long overdue a version update to handle more partition types).

I've then gone into Paragon partition manager and manually changed the
partition IDs, which partition magic doesn't allow.

The other thing I'm mindful of here is that the 3rd partition is going to
hold the Intel edition of Solaris (which is coming on leaps and bounds right
now). Cue the problems with Solaris and Linux Swap partitions having the
same partition ID...

After some previous tinkering I can get around that problem, but only by
being able to change those IDs myself.

I know the above method may not be the ideal solution, but it seems to be
working so far!

Steve.

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