System Commander 7 not working - any pure Linux alternatives?

[Rick Stevens]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:50, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I have a suspicion that it may be chipset related. I booted Dyne:bolic
>>>and using lspci I see an ATI chipset - north bridge, south bridge,
>>>pretty much the whole machine except the networking (both wired and
>>>wireless) and 1394, are ATI. Probably there's some weird little glitch
>>>recognizing the EIDE controllers or something...
>>
>>Uh, that's possible but it does show the partitions, doesn't it?  If it
>>does, I think it can at least _see_ the controller and drive.
> 
> 
> No, it sits at the initial blue screen with a message box displaying
> 
> "System Commander is analyzing your system"
> 
> and never moves from there. I never get to the picture of the
> partitions.

Ohhhhhh!  The SCBSOD!  Lovely!

>>>It's nice that Linux is so flexible...
>>
>>Remember that XP will try to blow Linux away.  At the very least it'll
>>kill off grub or lilo.  Your best bet is to install XP first and reserve
>>space for the Linux shared partitions..  Then install Linux and let grub
>>do your OS loading for you.  grub will see XP and put it in the boot
>>menu.
> 
> 
> Yep, I understand. I have SC7 in the boot partition of all my machines,
> and from there install grub on another partition, so I first see the SC7
> boot menu, then the grub menu, then Linux. 
> 
> Except, if I cannot get a second OS installed, and I cannot resize a
> partition, then SC7 isn't helping. (Stating the obvious...) ;-)

You know, you can always fire up SC or PC from CD or floppy, so just
using grub and keeping the others locked in a drawer (you know, "In case
of emergency, open drawer) would simplify things a tad.  Unless, of
course, you're the kind of chap that wears a belt AND suspenders...just
in case.

>>I've never called V-Com so I don't know how responsive they'll be.  Good
>>luck with them.
> 
> 
> Thanks. No response from them yet today. We'll see.

"Curiosity, Commander Decker.  Insatiable curiosity."
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