System Commander 7 not working - any pure Linux alternatives?

Mark Knecht markknecht at comcast.net
Tue Mar 30 06:15:20 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 21:13, Guy Rouillier wrote:

> I had this exact same problem on SC7.05 on an old dual Pentium  MMX 233.  I called V-Com, and on the phone, they maneuvered me through some hidden menus, had me change a setting, and the problem went away.  My cryptic notes say "on setup screen, use alt-F9 - special setup options".  I guess I thought what to do from there must be self-evident, because I didn't scribble down anything more.

Very interesting. This pulls up a special screen with the following
settings:

Trace active? 			No
Extra information?		No
Skip boot change in memory?	No
Clear items?			No
Skip auto extended EBIOS id?	No
Display data?			No
Alternate disk error handling?	No
OSW options:			Auto
Unused
Int 13 EBIOS use		Auto
Auto-AST for MSDOS or PCDOS	Yes

and then in green text:
Partition data validated

I wouldn't have known any of that was there, and now I wouldn't say that
any one of those is obvious to me, but maybe you can look against your
settings if you still have that machine.

> 
> I called V-Com recently.  I had purchased Partition Magic because SC7 is getting a little dated and didn't feel confident using it on XP NTFS, but really didn't like PM.  The V-Com guy said that SC8 will be out "within 3 months" - that was two months ago.  SC is one of my standby's so I'll be upgrading when it comes out, to get ReiserFS resizability.

That will be a great reason to buy it. The one feature I wish they'd add
is letting us install it when the first OS is Linux. It always seems you
must have at least one M$ OS on the system first.

> 
> I also have a laptop without a floppy (eMachines M6805 AMD64), but it has a built-in 6-format memory card reader.  I bought a Compact Flash card and put the Linux boot files on it, but unfortunately the system will not boot from the memory cards.  Keeping my fingers crossed for a BIOS upgrade.  Resisting buying an external floppy - you can always make bootable CDs.

Maybe that would work. Somehow store the data that the program makes for
the floppy and then write that to a CD.

Thanks,
Mark






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