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Subject: Re: [9fans] multiboot
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:50:11 -0500
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i use the following to multiboot,
and i'm very happy with it.

hget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/~rsc/mbr.bootmgr >/tmp/mbr.bootmgr
disk/mbr -m /tmp/mbr.bootmgr /dev/sdC0/data

you can also write it to a floppy to get
a floppy disk that does things like help
old bioses boot from bootable cds.

the source code is from

http://btmgr.sourceforge.net

(thanks to whoever it was on this list
for originally pointing this program out.)
except that i added Plan 9 to the list
of known disk ids, and i tweaked the
binary so that disk/mbr could install
the boot manager rather than need
their custom installer.

what i like the most is that all the
configuration can be done at the
boot screen; it doesn't require some
particular os for configuration.