Remove all mention of sbm; no longer needed
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About the Smart Boot Manager image
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The file `sbm.bin' that is available in this directory may be useful
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to you if you are not able to directly boot the first CD because your
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BIOS may be too old and may not support ISOLINUX.
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Then, instead of booting on the CD directly, you create a Smart Boot
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Manager floppy image by using the sbm.bin disk image. You can create this
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floppy with rawrite (under DOS) or with dd (under Linux). Now you can
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boot on this floppy disk and it will detect your CDROM and let you boot
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on it bypassing any BIOS limitation.
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What is SBM ?
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Smart Boot Manager or briefly SmartBtmgr (SBM), is an OS independent
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Boot Manager - a program that is loaded by the bios before any
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operating system and allows you to choose which operating system to
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boot.
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SBM is included in Debian in two ways, the package bmconf allows us to
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install and configure an old version of SBM and sbm wich is the latest
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version of SBM with an installer.
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What's the use of SBM on the CD then ?
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SBM includes an IDE driver that allows us to boot the cds even on
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machines with a BIOS that wouldn't support booting from CD, provided our
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CDROM is an IDE one, that is, so you can make a SBM floppy and boot from
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it and then tell it to boot from your CDROM.
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Also, there are some cases where the BIOS would allow booting from the CD
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but isolinux fails to boot from there, in this case you can either boot
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using a CD other than the first, as the others don't use isolinux, or you
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can make a SBM floppy and boot from this floppy and then tell SBM to boot
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your CDROM.
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How do you make a SBM floppy ?
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If you have SBM installed on a box you can run sbminst. Otherwise you can
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put the sbm.bin floppy image that we provide with our cds onto a floppy
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just like you would do with a rescue image.
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* Recommend syslinux-common instead of syslinux. Closes: #497966
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* Major licensing problem cleanup: (Closes: #497270)
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+ Remove binary blobs from the package; pull those files from the
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.debs in the archive as needed (sbm.bin.gz, isolinux.bin,
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vesamenu.c32)
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.debs in the archive as needed (isolinux.bin, vesamenu.c32)
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+ sbm.bin no longer needed, so dropped it
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+ Pull out the code to find the right deb and put it in a new helper
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shell script (tools/which_deb), called from Makefile and boot-* as
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needed.
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cp -lf $disk $CDDIR/$INSTALLDIR/$dir
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fi
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done
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# Include Smart Boot Manager image for people where isolinux fails
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# TODO: Work out how to do this properly; for now it's disabled
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# (SAM 2008-09-15)
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#SBMDEB=`$BASEDIR/tools/which_deb $MIRROR $DI_CODENAME sbm`
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#(ar p "${SBMDEB}" data.tar.gz | \
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# tar zxf - -C $CDDIR/../sbm ./boot)
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#cp -f $CDDIR/../sbm/boot/sbm.img $CDDIR/install/sbm.bin
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# And add our own README
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#cp -p $BASEDIR/data/$DI_CODENAME/README.sbm $CDDIR/install/
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fi
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extra_image () {
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awk '/\/debootstrap_.*deb/ {print $2}'`
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;;
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sbm)
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DEB="$MIRROR/"`zcat $PTH/binary-i386/Packages.gz | \
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awk '/\/sbm.*deb/ {print $2}'`
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;;
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silo)
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DEB="$MIRROR/"`zcat $PTH/binary-sparc/Packages.gz | \
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awk '/\/silo.*deb/ {print $2}'`
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