help with slackware boot floppies

Farhan i.am.farhan at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 15:10:29 EDT 2005


Ah. i figured it out last night, late at 12:00 a.m i used the smart
boot manager from the slackware boot disk dir. it booted fine/

on8/3/2005Gregory Nowak said  
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I've found that sbm ironically will boot from cd on newer bioses that
support booting from cd-rom, but that have this feature disabled. On
the other hand, I have not yet gotten sbm to boot from cd-rom on
machines that don't support booting from the cd at all in the bios.

Greg


On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:45:40PM +0400, Sergei V. Fleytin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am not sure if it will be of any help to you. But there exists a
> boot manager called 'sbm' (smart boot manager). It's available as a
> debian packages. This boot manager allows to choose the media to boot
> from, including cdrom. I myself have no experience with it but perhaps
> you will find it useful. 
> 
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