Hi,
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut5/chapter/ch04.pdf
The extract from O Reilly's 'Linux In Nutshell' is the
most comprehensive information of LiLo, Grub
bootloaders. There has been numerous changes since the
book first appeared. LiLo is phased out in most
mainstream gnu/Linux OS's which by default use Grub.
SBM is a not-so-new entrants in the segment of
bootloaders.
Package: sbm
Description: Smart Boot Manager (SBM) is a
full-featured boot manager
Smart Boot Manager (SBM) is an OS independent and
full-featured boot
manager with an easy-to-use user interface.
.
The main goals of SBM are to be absolutely OS
independent, flexible
and full-featured. It has all of the features needed
to boot a variety
of OSes from several kinds of media, while keeping
its size no more
than 30K bytes. In another words, SBM does NOT touch
any of your
partitions, it totally fits into the first track (the
hidden track)
of your hard disk!
.
Main features:
* Automatically searches drivers and partitions
* Powerful Boot Schedule
* Booting from CD-ROM
* Swapping driver ID
* Auto Delay Boot
* Sending keystrokes to the operating system
* Easy Customized Theme file
* Password protection
* Y2k bug work-around for old BIOSes
If you are using Debian sid try out this command
'debtags search admin::boot' to find numerous programs
that aid in boot gnu/linux.
Cheers
--arky
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