[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Boot CD

[Tom Tumelty]

ideally I would like to make a cd (because i do not have a floppy for this
laptop)  that will boot the computer, then it will allow me to choose which
bootable partition to boot on the harddisk .


On 3/25/06, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/25/06, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Most any Linux boot disk will do what you want, and there are lost of
> > bootable Linux CDs to choose from.
> >
> > If the computer will not boot from CD, try "sbootmgr":
> >
> ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/rootdisks/sbootmgr.dsk
> >
>
> This might be newer version, (I really don't know if there's any
> difference or not, but...):
>
> ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/rootdisks/sbootmgr.dsk
>
> > sbootmgr.dsk - This nifty little tool allows selecting various devices
> > to boot from a menu, and even allows booting a CD-ROM in machines
> > where the BIOS doesn't support it (or it's supposed to support it, but
> > it just doesn't work). If you have trouble booting to CD-ROM, you
> > might try writing this image to a floppy, booting it, and then
> > selecting your CD-ROM drive as the boot device."
> >
>
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