Creating bootable IFL partition
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 12:51 am
Some time ago at viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3471&p=18926&hilit=copy+IFL#p18926 , the following was written
"Create an IFL UFD. Use any TeraByte app to copy the IFL partition to Free Space on the internal disk. Resize the copied partition to 100 to 150 MB.
Create a Boot Item in BootIt".
as advice for how to get a bootable IFL partitiion on a hard disk. It's good advice and it works. However, at least for the current IFL, it seems to be necessary to have 14998 MB of free space to copy to if copying with Partition Work. It took me quite a while to figure out why with Copy Pending for the UFD, Paste would not be active on the 150 MB to which I wanted to copy. I'm pretty sure essentially the same situation existed for the previous version of IFL. I don't remember encountering this situation at the time the above advice was given, but I might just have not tried exactly the same thing I tried this time.
Interestingly, IFW can copy the IFL UFD to the pre-existing 150 MB IFL partition though that changes the partition size from 150 to 141 MB.
"Create an IFL UFD. Use any TeraByte app to copy the IFL partition to Free Space on the internal disk. Resize the copied partition to 100 to 150 MB.
Create a Boot Item in BootIt".
as advice for how to get a bootable IFL partitiion on a hard disk. It's good advice and it works. However, at least for the current IFL, it seems to be necessary to have 14998 MB of free space to copy to if copying with Partition Work. It took me quite a while to figure out why with Copy Pending for the UFD, Paste would not be active on the 150 MB to which I wanted to copy. I'm pretty sure essentially the same situation existed for the previous version of IFL. I don't remember encountering this situation at the time the above advice was given, but I might just have not tried exactly the same thing I tried this time.
Interestingly, IFW can copy the IFL UFD to the pre-existing 150 MB IFL partition though that changes the partition size from 150 to 141 MB.