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Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:13:25 PST7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: System Cmdr. & eCs

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>Thanks for your report, Sandy. This is at least some good anecdotal
>evidence, and saves me a foray into the noisegroups. I'm wondering just
>what your experimental setup consisted of (H/D and boot options), how
>long you ran it this way with SC, and how hard you drove it.

Hi Jordon,

I set up an old K6-2 computer with two drives: 10 gig and 4 gig.

The 10 gig is set up as:
Boot Manager - 7.8 meg - Primary
ECS - 4 gig - hpfs - Primary
Win 98 (command line only -- these are the files from the Win 98 Startup
floppy) - 3 Gig - Fat 32 - Primary Win XP - 2.5 gig - Fat 32 - Logical
(The Win 98 partition is where I keep SC plus store my Drive Images
(backups)).

The 4 Gig drive is set up as:
Linux ext 2 - 3.9 gig - logical
Linux swap - 128 meg - logical

System Commander shows: OS/2, Win 98, Win XP, Linux, and Boot from Drive
A. I tried setting up Boot Manager also, but so far that hasn't worked.

I drive this system very hard, and I have had lots of problems.
Unfortunately, I haven't kept a log. Usually I can remember these things,
but in the last few years my memory has deteriorated. (I am now trying to
get into the habit of taking notes -- but then I misplace my papers!
Maybe it's time for a PDA?)

Anyhow, what I rembember is that often after doing something with Boot
Manager, I lose SC. One way of getting it back is to boot Partition Magic
from a floppy, set the Win 98 partition "Active," and reboot. That puts me
into a "C" prompt and a command line.
At that point I type:
cd /sc (that's where SC resides)
scin (a utility program)
e (for enable SC).

That's it. Reboot, and SC comes right up.

One problem I remember was when I resized the Fat 32 partition to make
room for Win XP. Both fat 32 partitions were then totally inaccessible. I
had to boot into eCs (I think maybe from floppies), invoke LVM and, using
Physical View, Create two new volumes - one for each of the fat 32
partitions. I then set boot manager "active" and everything was back to
normal.

I hope this answers your questions. Please let me know if you need any
other information.

Sandy

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