{"id":196,"date":"2005-03-18T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/testwp\/story\/smart-bootmanager\/"},"modified":"2016-11-27T08:43:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T08:43:47","slug":"smart-bootmanager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/smart-bootmanager\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart BootManager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>  This Omnibook 2000 is old enough that the BIOS does not  support booting off of a CD directly.  Many Linux installers have an option to boot from a floppy disk.  However, many other software these days comes on a bootable CD but without a floppy option.  And those that have a floppy option are often still easier to use with a single CD.<\/p>\n<p> Therefore I decided I needed to be able to boot from CD. After searching around with Google, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/btmgr.sourceforge.net\/about.html\">Smart BootManager<\/a>. It is a small, free program that can boot a PC from a variety of devices, including an IDE\/ATAPI CD-Rom drive.   It can also be installed onto a floppy or the Master Boot Record of a hard drive.<\/p>\n<p> I put it on a floppy, booted from that floppy, and then I was  able to select the CD and boot it. It also installed nicely onto the hard disk MBR, allowing me to boot easily from either the hard drive or the CD, without needing the floppy. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"links inline\">\n<li class=\"taxonomy_term_48 first\"><a href=\"\/amillar\/category\/primary-topic\/software\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"\">Software<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"taxonomy_term_17\"><a href=\"\/amillar\/topic\/computers\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Computers are a significant hobby of mine, as well as being the primary focus of my career.  I enjoy many aspects of it, especially making older, marginalized, or obsolete technology do things people would not expect was still doable.  In some ways I am sort of a &quot;bottom feeder in the cyberspace food chain&quot;.\">Computers<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"taxonomy_term_34\"><a href=\"\/amillar\/topic\/linux\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"\">Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"taxonomy_term_33\"><a href=\"\/amillar\/topic\/software\" rel=\"tag\" title=\" \">Software<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"taxonomy_term_25 last\"><a href=\"\/amillar\/category\/project\/picture-frame\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Constructing a digital picture frame\">Picture Frame<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Submitted by amillar on Fri, 2005-03-18 07:54                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Omnibook 2000 is old enough that the BIOS does not support booting off of a CD directly. Many Linux installers have an option to boot from a floppy disk. However, many other software these days comes on a bootable CD but without a floppy option. And those that have a floppy option are often &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/smart-bootmanager\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smart BootManager&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project","tag-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}