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Date:	Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:37:21 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: your added W98 on 3rd. H/D

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Sandy wrote:

> I am trying to learn more about LVM. Mostly I learn from trying things out
> and making mistakes, but this time, I didn't learn anything -- and that
> makes me anxious.
> . . .
> I added a third hard drive and installed Win 98 on it. My son has an old
> digital camera that will connect to Win 98 but not to Win XP. (I
> disconnected the first two hard drives so Win 98 would install). I then
> reconnected the drives and went to System Commander
>
> For some reason, even though System Commander will recognize Win 98 on the
> third hard drive, it won't boot. I can boot to Win 98, however, by going
> into system BIOS and forcing a boot to Drive E.

I always thought that Win OSes (prior to NT, anyway) *had to reside on* and own Drive C.
Period, full stop. Perhaps your ver. of System Cmdr. has some way of overcoming this ? But
when you reconnected the drives, wouldn't the lettering shift, in unfortunate ways ? This too
may fall under the heading of "It's not nice to fool with Mother Redmund."

> PROBLEM
> As an experiment, I added the third drive to Boot Manager to see if it
> would boot from there (so I wouldn't have to go into BIOS each time). That
> doesn't work any better than System Commander -- the screen goes blank and
> I face a blinking cursor.
>
> As Far As I Know I only made two changes in LVM:
> I created a new volume for the third hard drive.
> I changed the name of the new volume to Win 98.

But was this -- or any of the others -- "compatibility" volumes ? I seem to recall Tony
mentioning at a recent presentation that the key to LVM harmony on a multi-OS system was to
make everything a compatibility volume from Day 1, excepting whatever *needed* to be set as
something else. That's an oversimplification, I'm sure, and I would welcome a more detailed
restatement of the rule.

> Is there somewhere I can get some guidelines for using LVM?
> Of should I assume I did something I shouldn't have and maybe try again,
> this time being especially careful?

If there isn't one already, I hope someone writes a comprehensible and reasonably thorough
article on this. Just in case such a thing already exists, I'd suggest a search through the
archives of VOICE newsletter and OS/2 eZine.

Jordan

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