Multibooting MANY OS's & Bootmagic

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khakisheep

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Hello All,

Here is my situation. I'm looking to set up many partitions on a HD; (100+)
I'm looking for software that can handle this, currently working with Bootmagic but I'm not sure if there is a max number of partitions it can create and manage.

1) Does anyone know how many Bootmagic can handle?
2) Recommendations for other Boot Loaders, (free is better) that can handle my needs and more are appreciated!
 
last year i was using partition magic to create and manage partitions and bootmagic to install multiple operating systems

Bootmagic is a great tool for installing mult. op. systems

All ur need is how to use this great program to do this u have to read the manual help files of both Partition Magic and Bootmagic

I used to have Windows XP on C Drive and Winme on D drive...

Normally u cant install Winme after Windows XP installation with NTFS options

Edit

By the way for simulating multiple OS's i suggest u another great program

VmWare Workstation


Its very good java based software..

The Web of Vmware :

http://www.vmware.com/

Hope this helps

Peace
 
The maximum # of partitions that you can have is 4 if they're primary.

To have more partitions, one of those four has to be "extended" within which you can create as many logical partitions as you want.
 
partitions vs boot loaders

RealBlackStuff has noted the limits of primary partitions per HD.
A boot loader, eg Partition Magic, LILO, GRUB, are virtually limitless in the
number of choices possible to boot. The control is a hierarchy of
hd.partnum so you are really limited by the number of HDs available.

Your desire of 100+ partitions (err, really bootable systems) implies to me
a testing lab for different systems on a constant hardware platform.
Would you care to elaborate on your usage?
 
jobeard said:
RealBlackStuff has noted the limits of primary partitions per HD.
A boot loader, eg Partition Magic, LILO, GRUB, are virtually limitless in the
number of choices possible to boot. The control is a hierarchy of
hd.partnum so you are really limited by the number of HDs available.

Your desire of 100+ partitions (err, really bootable systems) implies to me
a testing lab for different systems on a constant hardware platform.
Would you care to elaborate on your usage?
I work in a repair facility where one of our customers has as many as 150 or more models that we currently service. This problem arises, with so many repair models on a partition driver issues start to become a major issue. For stability, and ease on our techs; a test HD is being created with multiple partitions, each servicing a particular model. I'm seeing promising results so far, its a slow going process as each install is taking several hours from start to final test product. Updates to come as I progress through it, and I'm sure many more questions!
 
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