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Bootman




It is Filesystem agnostic, and boots an OS as if it was being booted directly from the hardware - and as such can boot virtually any operating system. It can also Chainload GRUB , LILO and NTLDR . However, being independent of an OS prevents it being able to boot any disks which do not have a BIOS ID, with the exception of BeOS disk-in-a-file images on FAT32 .

bootman appeared in BeOS R4.0, having replacing LILO, which was used in R3.x. Installation, configuration and uninstallation can be done solely by a graphical application, also called bootman. This can also create a MBR restoration Floppy Disk without modifying the current MBR.