System Commander /* was LILO */

[cyoung at bbnplanet.com (Chuck Young)]

System commander is, IMHO, a very powerful boot/partition manager and can
be a lifesaver if you REALLY need it.  As you may know, it rewrites the
partition ID tag of every partition based on the way you configure it in
order to hide/reveal partitions for each bootable O/S.  Really handy
sometimes!

The way the software was intended to be removed is via "uninstallation".
This way it would change everything back to "normal" and not leave the
bizarre partition tags lying around which do the hiding.

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 10:32:49 -0400
> From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at gaf.ne.mediaone.net>
> To: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: LILO
> 
> I just installed LILO in the MBR to use as my boot manager rather than 
> System Commander. After I did this, I found that my disk types got changed 
> in the partition table.
> /dev/hda4, Linux native was made bootable.
> /dev/hda1 (WINDOZ) was changed to non-bootable, type 1c (unknown). 
> 
> The result was that I was unable to boot into Windows from LILO. I 
> corrected this by running the Linux fdisk utility. I also found that the 2 
> additional drives were set up as hidden.
> 
> I was unaware that LILO would make these changes. I would expect an MS 
> product to do this.
> 
> Once I booted successfully into Windoz, system commander reinstalled 
> itself, so I rebooted into Linux (had to use floppy), turned commander off, 
> ran /sbin/lilo, and found my partitions changed again. This is just a minor 
> annoyance,  but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this.
> -- 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
> 
> 
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