System Commander 7 not working - any pure Linux alternatives?

[Guy Rouillier]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:15:20 -0800
Mark Knecht <markknecht at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 21:13, Guy Rouillier wrote:
> 
> > I had this exact same problem on SC7.05 on an old dual Pentium  MMX
> > 233.  I called V-Com, and on the phone, they maneuvered me through
> > some hidden menus, had me change a setting, and the problem went
> > away.  My cryptic notes say "on setup screen, use alt-F9 - special
> > setup options".  I guess I thought what to do from there must be
> > self-evident, because I didn't scribble down anything more.
> 
> Very interesting. This pulls up a special screen with the following
> settings:
> 
> Trace active? 			No
> Extra information?		No
> Skip boot change in memory?	No
> Clear items?			No
> Skip auto extended EBIOS id?	No
> Display data?			No
> Alternate disk error handling?	No
> OSW options:			Auto
> Unused
> Int 13 EBIOS use		Auto
> Auto-AST for MSDOS or PCDOS	Yes
> 
> and then in green text:
> Partition data validated
> 
> I wouldn't have known any of that was there, and now I wouldn't say
> that any one of those is obvious to me, but maybe you can look against
> your settings if you still have that machine.

Sorry for the delay in replying.  I do indeed still have the system, but
I must have had the problem with a previous release of SC.  All those
options are set to No on my system, except for Auto-AST I think.  Try
setting Alternate disk error handling to Yes and see if that cures it. 
If not, set that back and then try Yes for Skip auto then try yes for
Int 13.  You shouldn't hurt anything.

> 
> > 
> > I called V-Com recently.  I had purchased Partition Magic because
> > SC7 is getting a little dated and didn't feel confident using it on
> > XP NTFS, but really didn't like PM.  The V-Com guy said that SC8
> > will be out "within 3 months" - that was two months ago.  SC is one
> > of my standby's so I'll be upgrading when it comes out, to get
> > ReiserFS resizability.
> 
> That will be a great reason to buy it. The one feature I wish they'd
> add is letting us install it when the first OS is Linux. It always
> seems you must have at least one M$ OS on the system first.
> 
> > 
> > I also have a laptop without a floppy (eMachines M6805 AMD64), but
> > it has a built-in 6-format memory card reader.  I bought a Compact
> > Flash card and put the Linux boot files on it, but unfortunately the
> > system will not boot from the memory cards.  Keeping my fingers
> > crossed for a BIOS upgrade.  Resisting buying an external floppy -
> > you can always make bootable CDs.
> 
> Maybe that would work. Somehow store the data that the program makes
> for the floppy and then write that to a CD.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
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Guy Rouillier