Still using a SLOW boot floppy???

[A. Jorge Garcia]

I found this great new boot floppy from http://btmgr.sf.net which I discovered from http://www.morphix.org or http://morphix.sf.net where you can also get this boot IMG.

It boots your CD drive like a boot floppy, but it loads neither vmlinuz nor miniroot.gz from the boot floppy which is what slows down the boot process. It boots the CD and then uses those files from the CD. This was made necessary in MORPHIX as the boot.img file is 2.88MB!

If you need a boot floppy on your machine, this is THE way to go! Also, since its not kernel specific, you need not upgrade the boot floppy every time you want to upgrade the CD. BTW, it'll boot any bootable partition.

Great job you guys: Alex (MORPHIX) and Gerry (btmgr).

Enjoy!

Regards,

[eadz]

Hehe you have already seen that mentioned here..

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29#139

It's great. My laptop doesn't boot from CD but with this it does :)

[A. Jorge Garcia]

Yes, I forgot about this! I rediscovered btmgr.sf.net through MORPHIX where I saw the benefits right away! When I first tried it, it did not seem to work well, maybe they've improved it.

Anyway, I use morphixboot_02.img from the download section of http://www.morphix.org - this may actually be slightly different from what's on http://btmgr.sf.net?

Regards,