I have slightly modified smart boot manager 3.7-1 to work as a comboot file with syslinux. Once added to syslinux menu, one can boot to syslinux and chain boot sbm, which can then boot a CD-ROM :-) and use Bart's el-torrito CD-ROM driver. I use SBM on my 486 (which lacks el-torrito support in its BIOS) to boot the FreeDOS CD-ROM for testing. (Or have some fun flopping back and forth between syslinux->memdisk->sbm->sylinux->... :-)
FYI, SMB is boot disk manager that normally occupies a few sectors on the harddisk or floppy and has its own loader. Normally one uses sbminst to create a special boot floppy (it does not have a FAT filesystem and is not recognized by DOS/Windows) which simply contains the 512byte loader and the 23KB program in the 1st few sectors of the disk. The advantages of SBM is that is can boot the computer from devices not supported by its BIOS (such as booting from a CD-ROM drive on older computers or one's with bad support). I have disabled the save changes support, though it may be possible to use the SYSLINUX API to reenable this (open/read/save). I have only tested some of the basic booting (floppy, back to BIOS [back to SYSLINUX], second floppy, CD-ROM, ...) and they all work on my test computer. As always, use at your own risk. I have not tested the install SBM feature, it may or may not work. Backup 1st. http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/btmgr-3.7-1.cbt.zip Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
