Re: OT: Web runs slow after RAM upgrade

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "J. R. Fox"  on Mon, 29 Dec 2003
10:36:45 -0800


> My
> brother, who is rather accomplished with W2K / XP claims that it is totally insane
> to attempt to have a multiboot environment coexisting on the same hard drive these
> days, because today's 32-bit opsyses keep revising the MBR (like when you apply a
> Service Pack), and write unknown things to inaccessible areas of the drive.

Not my experience at all. I often have three OpSyses on one hard drive, and
use BM to manage them. Windows Service Packs don't faze Boot Manager. The
original _installation disk_ for Win2K does screw it up -- but then, you just
use an OS/2 MCP install CD (or diskettes), drop to an OS/2 prompt and use the
latest version of LVM (Logical Volume Manager) to first delete, then reinstall,
BM. Just takes a minute or so. But apart from that, the MBR hasn't got
anything to do with the the primary _partition_ that contains BM! They are
unrelated and disconnected. I'm running he very latest of this and that.
Years and years go by and I never have a problem with multi-boots. So I would
say that "rather accomplished" is a very relative status.

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Robert Holmgren
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