[PLUG] Booting from CD-ROM/USB with old BIOS

[Steven Susbauer]

You are talking about the smart boot manager. I usually grab it from a
Debian mirror (since it's on all their CDs), but it has a page at
http://btmgr.webframe.org/


On 1/1/06, Aaron Ten Clay <aaron at madebyai.com> wrote:
>
> Happy new year everyone!
>
> I have a few older systems around, which predate the El Torito and USB
> booting standards. A while back I found a really cool boot disk which is
> basically a bootloader - it just presents a menu of all logical devices on
> the system (including CD-ROMs) and allows you to boot from any of them,
> even
> on systems whos BIOSes don't support CD-ROM booting.
>
> Having recently lost my bookmarks, I've been unable to find again the
> program which creates the disk again. I've also misplaced the disk :( I've
> been googling for almost an hour now - I can't remember the name of the
> product. All I remember is that to create the floppy I had to be in
> windows,
> and run the program with a single commandline argument of '0' to specify
> the
> first removable disk drive as the target.
>
> I was thinking it was hosted at sourceforge (I believe it was opensource)
> but I looked through all the projects at sourceforge with the word 'boot'
> in
> them. Does anyone know the name of the product I'm talking about? If not,
> something I could use instead to accomplish the same thing?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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Steven Susbauer