[Btmgr-main] Re: About Smart BootManager

[Donovan B. <ab...@mi...>]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 01:22:44PM +0000, su_zhe wrote:
> Hello,
>   I have read your comment on freshmeat.net of Smart BootManager long time before. 
> Now Smart BootManager 3.6 will be available soon. There is a pre-release version on
> my website (http://btmgr.gnuchina.org/ or http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/).
> 
>   Now you can hide Number, Type as well as Flags from Boot Menu. Booting from CD-ROM
> is also available.
> 
>   You can try it and give me any suggestions.

Thanks for letting me know... I'll certainly give it a go.

> btw, I have no plan to implement network booting, because it's too comprehensive to fit
> into Smart BootManager.

That's cool... I'd rather it remain lean than get bloated just to support
that feature. I thought there might be some easy way to support it assuming
there was already a bootrom on the network card, but perhaps not.

Possibly the easiest way to do this would be to have a small partition with
an etherboot image on it. It might even be doable without a seperate
partition by using lilo to boot an etherboot image, and using the "push keys
into buffer" option to make lilo choose linux or etherboot for different
menu options.


BTW, how are you finding sourceforge as a developer? As a user I find it
great. I notice that you have an old mailing list as well as the sourceforge
one. Which mailing list are you planning to use?

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