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Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 12.11.2022, 12:09

> > What this software sets apart from other software is its advanced boot
> > manager capability. Especially in a multi OS environment you can
> > effectively shield the different OS partitions from each other while
> > letting the OSes share some common data partitions. So if you want to
> setup
> > DOS / Windows / OS2 etc. on the same host its worth giving it a try. Be
> > aware that it is not the simplest software to use and there is some
> > learning curve.
>
> In which ways does the feature differ from
> BOOTMGR?
Well that first sentence of your quote was perhaps a bit imprecise of me. That was primarily targeted at the tools provided with the operating systems.

But in comparison to BOOTMGR I would consider the tight integration between the partition manager and the boot loader a benefit. Correct me if I am wrong, I think BOOTMGR operates on the MBR and thus is limited to 4 primary partitions? In RANISH up to 32 partitions can be created and theoretically you can install DOS on 16 of them (boot menu fits 16 entries), because in its advanced mode RANISH is using its own partition table (and patches MBR upon boot).

If using only two primary partitions or so I think there is no much difference between the two and using an ordinary fdisk + BOOTMGR would yield a similar result?

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