Kyle Brown Mar 26, 2024

I use System Commander on my retro computer to make it was to have multiple operating systems on the same computer.

It works pretty well until I accidentally overwrite the MBR record so that it doesn't start anymore and none of the portions are bootable on their own because system Commander messes with the partition table to hide one operating system from another.

I guess I have to hack myself again

And find something better than "fdisk /mbr" to add MBRs to compact flash cards

Show threadPurpleJillybeans Mar 26, 2024
@Wearwolf I recently picked up a bracket-mounted IDE-CF adapter specifically so I could switch OSs *without* resorting to partition-finagling boot managers.
Show threadKyle Brown 

@PurpleJillybeans I also use CF cards but I like the "permanence" of the boot manager

Annoyingly it was trying to set up a CF card that got me in trouble and it was a thing that I already knew was dangerous and could cause issues

Teaches me to leave things as "good enough"

I also think I lost the restore disk image as part of updating my floppy emulator

Mar 26, 2024 at 1:23pmWeb