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My question:s Can grub4dos also support boot partitions on a second or third HD? Can it deal with logical partitions in an extended partition?

Sure it can :). (yes and yes)

But, for the record, BootIt NG is not in any way "more complex" than another bootmanager, most probably is what you want to achieve that is "complex", and *any* tool capable of "delivering" will need some time to get familiar with it and with it's syntax/approach.

One may debate whether a given syntax is more intuitive than another, but basically it's personal, just as an example I find grub4dos' syntax more intuitive then Syslinux/memdisk/isolinux's one, but you will find many people that think that it is the other way round, example:

http://reboot.pro/8546/

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Sure it can :). (yes and yes)

Great!

But, for the record, BootIt NG is not in any way "more complex" than another bootmanager, most probably is what you want to achieve that is "complex", and *any* tool capable of "delivering" will need some time to get familiar with it and with it's syntax/approach.

One may debate whether a given syntax is more intuitive than another, but basically it's personal, just as an example I find grub4dos' syntax more intuitive then Syslinux/memdisk/isolinux's one, but you will find many people that think that it is the other way round, example:

http://reboot.pro/8546/

Aside from trying to use more than four partitions on one drive, I don't think I was trying anything particularly difficult. That is: boot off a selected partition while hiding other partitions. There was a program about 10 years ago from a company called something like "V-comm" called System Commander, that did all this. Of course, this other product didn't work too well.

Although I'm an old Solaris guy (used to work at Sun Microsystems), I see the value in "intuitive" GUI-based systems to set options and control actions. BootIT seems to have skipped class the day when they were talking about these issues. Actually, I'd rather deal with a clean, well documented command line interface or scripting system than a GUI-based system that is confusing and doesn't give the user enough information to make intelligent choices.

Just my two cents here. :hello: Thanks, jaclaz!

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Just for the record, I remember very well System Commander (and you will find a few members here that will swear by it) but at the time I found it wanted to (and it actually did) take command on my disk and was uninstalled in the sheer time needed to understand how to do it. :ph34r::realmad:

I guess it was the single most "aggressive" piece of software I had ever seen (later the good guys at Symantec made Norton Antivirus that simply outclassed System Commander in this aspect ;)).

And actually yes, one of the features I like about grub4dos :thumbup is it's command line capabilities that allow experimenting without needing to pre-made menu.lst entries every time.

If ALL you want to do is that, there are alos simpler bootmanagers, namely partita (oldish, not anymore recommended):

http://jaclaz.altervista.org/Projects/USB/USBstick.html

http://www.pedrofreire.com/crea1_en.htm

And the revamped OS-BS MBLDR (recommended):

http://reboot.pro/334/

http://mbldr.sourceforge.net/

BTW, I don't seem to remember that it supports booting from logical volumes inside extended by itself (but this can be fixed manually) , and anyway it will probably only manage the "whole" extended partition ONLY (i.e. the actual entry in the MBR).

jaclaz

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