IF i manage to get Mandrake working, any advice on what boot manager to use?

I currently use BootMagic to select either a Windows grouping of BeOS, and if Windows is selected, chose XP/98.

I have not a clue how to get LILO to work....

and the Be BootMan didn't work last time...

so what will i do with FOUR OS's? BootMagic 2.0 seems to dislike LINUX

Have you tried Acronis OS Selector ?

http://www.acronis.com/products/osselector/

Uninstall bootmagic. You should then find that Windows XP's boot manager is back from the dead.

boot into mandrake and issue this command

dd if=/dev/hdXX of=bootsect.man bs=512 count=1

sustituting hdXX for whatever partiton mandrake's / is on, i.e, hda2, hdb4, etc...

now copy the resultant bootsect.man file onto c:\ and append this line to boot.ini

c:\bootsect.man="Mandrake Linux"

A chappie just managed to install 37 operating systems on his machine, it was on the Techspotlight main page, so 4 is easy believe me....

need to wait for Mic to tell me how to get the XP boot manager to do BeOS then... its simple with the two Windows one i have in it, but could be hard with two totally different OS's

i also considered that XOSL, but it had so many 'this could damage your PC' warnings i gave up...

The procedure should be the same as in Mandrake, but I haven't tested it myself.
Just use /dev/disk/ide/ata/*insert the rest here* instead of /dev/hdXX and bootsect.be or something instead of bootsect.man. Then just add it to boot.ini.
If that fails for some reason, I attached my BeOS bootsector here. It's renamed .txt because of valid extensions.

Attached Files

bootsect.txt (512 Bytes, 8 views)

you can also create your bootsect.be with a windows software :
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm is a FREEWARE, and is a good solution when you can't do it with linux, BeOS, or something else

Stephane Dekeyzer.

Hey, its a thread seriously from the past :-)

I don't even have Windows on that system anymore. Thankfully. And I've figured out LILO.