September 16, 2000: Multiboot as Schizophrenia [reflections] [home] [search

I remember times when I owned only one PC (shrug!). This was multiboot machine running 5-6 operating systems (Linux, AIX, OS/2, MSDOS+Windows 3.11, DRDOS, some other exotic DOS incarnations, ...). Certainly it was some fun to set it up all properly under lilo, defeating all os'es booting and partition handling idiosyncrasies.

Somehow (may be because the number of machines in my possesion increased a bit), these days I consider miltiboot machines as schizophrenic ones. They live double, triple, quadruple,... lives, each one does not know about others. Poor creatures. I never will do such a thing to my machines again. Promise. One body - one soul.

(Now I only wonder what vmware is then?)



created Oct 29 2000
last updated Fri Feb 3 15:08:19 IST 2006