[TAG] Boot from cd via floppy

[Thomas Adam]

--- Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm not a TAG subscriber, so I can't see the list archives to verify,
> but hopefully this mail isn't repeating something that you've already
> had a dozen times this month.

So far, you're the first.  :)

> >From September's gazette: "my machine only boots from floppy, and I
> want it to boot from cd" might be addressed with a smart boot
> manager,
> such as sbm.  The debian (sarge) one credits James Su and Lonius as
> authors, and says it was downloaded from
> http://www.gnuchina.org/~suzhe , but it looks like the useful content
> can now be found at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/

Indeed.  It has been mentioned in the LG in the past (twice by me, and
once by Ben, I believe.)  It's OK, and provides a lot of elaborate
features that can be quite interesting on certain types of hardware, it
has to be said.

-- Thomas Adam


		
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