Multi-boot 2000/XP with System Commander 7

[appealdenied]

I seem to be having difficulties setting up a 4+ OS (all 2000 and/or XP) using System Commander 7.0. The way things are currently set up is as such. The initial primary partition contains System Commander and a copy of the Ghost executable (and no OS). There are 4 (for the time being) additional partitions on which I would like to have installations of the aforementioned OSes. As previously alluded to, Ghost (Version 7.5) is the method of recreating the OSes within the various partitions. (NB: All Ghost images are NTFS.)

With the current configuration (SC residing on the first primary partition), I can/should be able to have the other 3 primary partitions with an OS recognized and bootable from System Commander. However, a fourth will appear as unknown. I tried to make an extended partition with two logical drives but only one of those logical drives would host a bootable OS (and this only occcured when that OS was next to the system partition). Currently I am at wits end as to how to make this work the way I would like. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

TIA "Life is like a purple antelope walking through a sea of dead tuna."

 

[franklin97355]

What is it you are trying to accomplish? In other words, why are you doing this?

 

[wolluf]

Why do you need System Commander?

You could have the 4 operating systems on 4 primary partitions and just use 2k/XP's boot loader installed on the first partition.

Alternatively, my favourite boot manager (

http://www.boot-us.com)

installs to the MBR or a floppy. So you could have 4 independent o/s (ie, with boot sectors on their own partitions) one on each primary partition again, and boot-us will happily boot each.

 

[appealdenied]

Sorry for the delayed response guys. I am not quite sure why my boss wanted to use SC as a boot manager in lieu of Windows. Nonetheless, my solution was to just use three primary partitions. I really didnt need more than that anyway, simply because, in a testing environment its too much to maintain.

Thanks for the help.

"Life is like a purple antelope walking through a sea of dead tuna."

 

[bcastner]

You might look into VMWare.