Re: A better Lilo?

[Brian Wiens <wiensb@algonquinc.on.ca>]

My apologies to the truly bilingual - here's my attempt to translate the
home page and the download page.  The links are the French words in square
brackets.

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Are you looking for an easy way to move from one OS to another?  You've
found it!  MBoot is the software that you need!

What is it?

MBoot is a universal (boot loader?).  On starting your PC, it analyses all
your hard drives to find the ones that contain an OS.  You are presented
with a list (see screen shots [captures d'ecrans]) from which you can
quickly select the OS to use.

Allowing multiple OSs to coexist on your machine becomes child's play.
MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT, Linux and all other OSs can share disk space
without interfering with each other.

If you aren't convinced, you can take a look at a detailed list of the
functionality [fonctionnalites] of MBoot.

The system documentation [documentation] gives detailed instructions on the
use and installation of MBoot.  The FAQ [FAQ] covers frequently encountered
problems.

The archive containing MBoot, the installer and the documentation is
accessible on the download [telechargement] page.

You can also be informed of new versions by subscribing to the MBoot mailing
list [liste de diffusion MBoot].

1.2.7 - Fixed an error where some new BIOSs will refuse to process the MBR
of a disk without an active partition by setting one partition active, even
if it is not the chosen partition.

1.2.6 - Resolved a conflict between older versions and versions higher than
1.2.4
    - Set default language to French
    - If the default partition is not found and only one bootable partition
exists, this partition is started after the normal delay (previously it
would wait indefinitely for user input).

1.2.5 - Some minor application and installer code changes.

1.2.4 - (More "Inaccessible Boot Device" errors?) when starting Windows NT
(apparently only with Ultra-DMA disks, if someone could explain why...).

1.2.1 - Correction of a bug that detected Pentium II chips as Cyrix.

1.2.0 - Added access to floppy drives.

1.0.4 - First distributed version, with installer.

0.81 - New fonts throughout, new screens, MultiDisc, 32 character names,
handling of extended partitions, completion of installer.

0.70 - Interface.

0.10 - First version, choose partition with keyboard, no (?????)

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The download page [telechargement] is fairly self explanatory.  1.2.7
contains the installer as well as HTML documentation and the FAQ.

I haven't tried this so I can't vouch for how it works.  My apologies to the
francophones for any errors of translation :-).

Brian Wiens

"Sharp, Lee" wrote:

>    I saw a link to what someone claimed was a much better boot manager
> than Lilo.  The problem is that the web page, and docs are in french.
> Does anyone here know someone who speaks french?  ;-)  Is this something
> worth looking at?
>
> http://home.nordnet.fr/~llejczyk/mboot/index.html
>
>                         Lee