Strange booting problem

[Chris Murphy]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> Actually, another option is to put the legacy OS into a VM where it
> can then inherit some of the features of Linux, including LVM support.
> Then you can LVM this external drive instead of partitioning it, and
> then make an LV (or two or three or whatever) to use as backing for
> the VM, and then those VMs will see each LV as a drive, which you can
> partition and format with that legacy OS's tools however you want. Or
> use qcow2. Lots of options.

Plus as a legacy OS, it's reasonable to assume it has unpatched
security vulnerability that will never be fixed. It's not fore sure
safer to run it in a VM, it depends on the configuration of course,
but you have the ability to better isolate it than if it's running
baremetal.

-- 
Chris Murphy