Re: [RULE] Booting from CD when not supported by BIOS

[Mike Cook]

We use Smartboot Manager extensively at a project I'm involved in rehabing 
old machines and distributing them to low income folks (using Linux) and it 
works great.  The only time it won't work is on some older laptops.  I've 
used it with all of the major Linux distributions as well as Windows.  Once 
the kernel is loaded Linux finds the CD fine.

Mike Cook

At 10:06 AM 8/7/03 +0200, you wrote:
> Many of us are using older hardware that does not support booting from a
> CD, requiring the use of (possibly numerous) floppies.  An interesting
> project that I have used in the past that has been helpful is the
> Smartboot Manager by James Su, and details are available here:
>
> http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
>
> The image is also available as part of the Slackware 9.0 distribution,
> available, for example, here (or in a similar location on another
> mirror):
>
> http://www.slackware.at/data/slackware-9.0/isolinux/sbootmgr/
>
> I have not tried it use it with the slinky iso yet, though I expect to
> do so shortly.  However, it boots the Slackware 9.0 CD just fine on one
> of my older portables that does not support booting from CD.  The CD
> must be bootable, of course.
>
> Regards,
> C David Rigby
> address@hidden
>
>
>
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