[NBLUG/talk] recommendation for boot magic

[Cal Herrmann]

I have a related question: my wife's (Compaq portable) has Boot Magic, with 
Windows and a partition for Linux.  She is ready for me to install (Mandrake) 
Linux, I don't want the installation to overwrite the MBR or Boot Magic.  Can 
I just put in the CD's when BM says "ready to  install Linux" and do it, or 
do I need to do something for Linuxafter installatio to be found by the BM 
loader?
Thanks, Cal

On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:51 am, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:27:19AM -0800, Kevin Dwan wrote:
> > BootMagic is now part of the $70 PartitionMagic from PowerQuest. I want
> > to be running NT, XP, and Fedora on the same machine, and don't know how
> > necessary something like BootMagic really is.
> > Any recommendations? I just want to be able to switch between
> > environments as conveniently as possible.
>
> With NT's boot loader and lilo and grub on linux, you don't really need
> something like bootmagic to handle your dual/triple booting.  You can
> either set up lilo or grub on the beginning of your linux partition, and
> then manage all three with the NT boot loader (the third entry telling it
> to boot linux off of the partition you specified), or you can manage it all
> with Grub or lilo.  Really it is just up to you.  I would go with managing
> it in whatever environment you find yourself in most often.