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GRUB4DOS、SYSLINUX及其它启动管理软件讨论专区 » How many kinds of boot management software are there

Floor1　Qtwdftxvt	Posted 2008-11-26 01:50
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I currently have three operating systems installed: WinXP, WinVista, and Red Flag Linux Desktop 6. Among them, WinXP and WinVista are installed on a 160GB SATA hard drive, while Linux is installed on a 40GB ATA hard drive. The multi-system boot uses the method of installing GRUB in the MBR. Now I can only boot XP and Vista in the GRUB menu, but I can't successfully boot the Linux on the other hard drive. I can only start Linux from the BIOS to adjust the Boot Menu. I want to ask if there are other boot management software that can boot the above three systems? If there are, please introduce them, thank you.

Floor2　sikro	Posted 2008-11-26 23:32
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The boot software that comes with Vista should be okay

Floor3　Qtwdftxvt	Posted 2008-11-27 12:50
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These three systems are not visible to each other. To completely isolate the three systems, you can only put the management software into the MBR.

Floor4　fujianabc	Posted 2008-11-27 17:33
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GRUB can completely boot Linux on any hard disk. It is estimated that the GRUB command of the original poster is incorrect

Floor5　Qtwdftxvt	Posted 2008-11-27 17:55
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After installing Linux on a 40GB hard drive, I opened its MENU.LST file and copied the code inside. However, the system considers the first hard drive as the 40GB one and the second as the 160GB one. My MENU.LST is on the 160GB (second) hard drive. I set the BIOS to boot from the 160GB hard drive, but then Linux seems to start halfway and then can't proceed. I think it's because of the conflict between the first and second hard drives. Now I still use the boot device selection menu in BIOS to boot. I just want to try other boot management software and know more. Software like spfdisk, system commander can't boot VISTA and Linux.

Floor6　sikro	Posted 2008-11-27 22:23
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Try using the boot manager in sfdisk. That one seems to directly activate the partition of the boot file, without the need for boot file support

Floor7　Qtwdftxvt	Posted 2008-11-28 12:12
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sfdisk doesn't work, the old stuff probably doesn't work, need to find some modern ones, the past two years.

Floor8　fujianabc	Posted 2008-11-28 17:08
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Originally posted by Qtwdftxvt at 2008-11-27 05:55 PM: After I installed Linux on a 40GB hard disk, I opened its MENU.LST file, copied the code inside, but the system considered the first hard disk as the 40GB hard disk and the second hard disk as the 160GB... After the hard disk order is swapped, the disk number in the grub boot command also needs to be changed.

Floor9　Qtwdftxvt	Posted 2008-11-28 21:44
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I have rewritten Menu.lst again, and it succeeded. Thank you everyone.