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 OS-BS rides again, now it is named mbldr!, MBR multiboot
post Sep 15 2006, 04:49 PM
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OS-BS was an old boot manager (1992) that had gone Commercial.

I have still to fully test it, but I remember the old one as a magnificent piece of code....

mbldr on Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=162108

Some snippets from the "changes" file:
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- Project has been renamed to "mbldr" due to legal issues discussed with Thomas Wolfram (mbldr is Master Boot LoaDeR)

Boot loader:
- Boot support for primary partitions above 1024 cylinder boundary
- Primary partitions hiding (FAT/FAT32/NTFS) like it is done in PQ PartitionMagic/OS-2 Boot Manager
- It is now possible to load operating systems from logical disks of an extended partition

==============================================================================
The text below is a copy of HISTORY file which was a part of OS-BS 1.35 by
Thomas Wolfram. It is kept here just for the sake of commonality.
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OS Boot Select Version 1.35, December 1992
Copyright © 1991, 1992 Thomas wolfRAM
History
------------------------------------------------------------


Version 1.35, December 1992
fixes a minor bug
.....


....and it fits in the MBR (512 bytes) yahoo.gif

The MBR installer needs cwsdpmi:
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/simtel...sc/csdpmi5b.zip
CWSDPMI.EXE is needed

The program won't run in Qemu, but it does in VMware.

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Update:
on 11th january 2007 version 1.42 released, it now features a Windows version.

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Update:
on 06th june 2007 version 1.43 released, it has now a Windows GUI MBR installer.
It needs mingw10m.dll, part of the mingw runtime:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ackage_id=11598

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Rise from the dead topic, sorry all
Can mbldr boot virtualmachine images without the need to run XP then VM then the actual image???
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QUOTE (morroman @ Oct 10 2008, 02:30 PM) *
Rise from the dead topic, sorry all
Can mbldr boot virtualmachine images without the need to run XP then VM then the actual image???


If only I could understand what you are asking...unsure.gif

Can you post an example of what you are trying to achieve, possibly after having re-read "common sense advice" in Rules:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?act=boardrules
with particular attention to points #d., #f1., #f2. wink.gif

BTW:
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May 30, 2008
mbldr 1.45 has been released. Boot-timer fix, French translation, partitions hiding/not hiding, few other improvements.

http://mbldr.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=162108

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Topic splitted to here:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5968


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great！ I am just looking for the like of this !

thanks for recommending ~~
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