SCO 5.07 boot manager

[Helio]

Hi,

I want to install SCO 5.07, Debian and Xp on the same hard disk.

Sco 5.07 boot manager can boot XP and Linux partitions ?

Thanks, Helio.

[Boyd Lynn Gerber]

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Helio wrote:
> I want to install SCO 5.07, Debian and Xp on the same hard disk.
>
> Sco 5.07 boot manager can boot XP and Linux partitions ?

I use the linux grub boot manager to triple boot now. The grub man pages
and web site can instruct you on how to set it up and run it.

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[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

I'm going to recommend you save yourself a lot of pain, and get some
cool capacity, by instead using VMWare to run the XP box and either
the Debian or the XP operating system. That way you don't have to
reboot, and modern hardware with a few Gig of RAM can run all three
comfortably. This also divorces you from hardware driver compatibility
issues for OpenServer, as SCO is seriously bankrupt and quality
support for these older versions of OpenServer continuing seems
unlikely. And OpenServer 5.0.7 works reasonably well with VMware, as
documented by AP Lawrence's web page at http://aplawrence.com/OSR5/smithosr5vmware.html.

I never got OpenServer running under Xen or KVM, and ran out of time
to pursue that on my last contract. VMWare worked reasonably, even the
inexpensive 'VMWare Workstation'.

[Stephen M. Dunn]

In article <e496d0ed-7c89-482c...@o20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> Helio <yahooha...@yahoo.com.br> writes:
$Hi,
$
$I want to install SCO 5.07, Debian and Xp on the same hard disk.
$
$Sco 5.07 boot manager can boot XP and Linux partitions ?

It can definitely boot XP - I have 5.0.7 and XP in a dual-boot
configuration on my home PC.

The 5.0.7 boot loader can load and execute the boot loader from any
partition you tell it to, regardless of what OS happens to be in that
partition. Now, that other OS may have a problem (e.g. some OSes may
not like to boot if their partition isn't marked active); if so, then
it's the problem of that other OS. All the 5.0.7 boot loader is doing
when you use it to boot a non-SCO OS is loading and executing that
other partition's boot block, which is exactly what would the normal
boot process would do on a machine that hosts only that other OS.
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