Multiple Boot Manager
This page is for Multiple Boot Manager (MBM). The boot manager is a low-level system control program to select/boot one of the installed OSs. MBM is a boot management program and distributed as an Open Source Software (GNU GPL). MBM has following features.
Boot Manager
- It can select a boot partition with boot menu at boot up.
- Supports drive size of up to 2TB and can boot from the patitions in the 2nd or later drive and logical patitions. (Depends on each OS)
- No patition is required to install the boot maneger it self.
- Supports up to four physical drives. (Must be recognized by BIOS)
Partition Table Editor
- Built-in partition table editor can manipulate partiotion table to create/delete/modify partitons on the drive. This will help to build multi-OS environment.
Graphic Menu
- Optional graphic based boot menu and the menu builder is available.
Supported OSs
Following list shows that which OS can be booted by MBM. Please refer to documents about limits on each OS. To install the boot manager, there are two different installers, DOS based program and diskette image program. The boot manager works completely independent of any partition or OSs.
- PC DOS 6.3, MS-DOS 6.2
- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me
- Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
- OS/2 warp3
- Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
- BeOS, B-right/V, Solaris, OPENSTEP 4.2J, Plan 9, EOTA
Menu builders
MBM supports graphical menu in addition of text based menu. The specs on the menu code is opened so that you will able to create your own original menu. The extend menu builders are also available. When you don't have the skills on embedded programming, you can also build your own menu with the menu builders. The menus created with the menu builders are also supports a mouse.
Sample Menu
Menu Builder
The menu builders are separated by color depth and resolution. Please choose a screen size you want best. The 256 color menus require a 256 color bitmap file for the menu image, and the 64K color menus also require a 24bit color bitmap file.
The documents contained in each archive are in Japanese. If you cannot read it, please refer to quick instruction and Parameters.
Attentions!!
MBM is a very dangerous program due to its use. Especially, any operation error on the partition table editor, as a result, all data on the hard disk will be lost!
Therefore, when you have no knowledge about the partition management on the hard disk, I don't recommend you to use MBM. I disclaim all responsibility to the result on using the MBM.
