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   <LI>Disable BIOS write-protection on boot sector and master boot sector at installation time.
   After installation the boot sector is never modified again - the BIOS protection could be enabled again.
   There is NO need for configuration - even after moving or deleting/creating primary partitions.
   <LI>Always keep bootable floppy or CD with a backup of MBR. If for some reasons the MBR loader or (what is even worse)
   partition table is broken, you may restore it with the backup.
   <LI>When using Linux with LILO/GRUB it is reasonable to install LILO into boot record of a chosen partition, not MBR.
   Of course if you want to use mbrbm in the MBR instead.
   <LI>Installation of all known Windows operating systems overwrites MBR. You have to reinstall mbrbm after you install
   any Windows on any partition. Since boot record of a target partition is also updated by Windows installation routine
   it is safe to overwrite MBR contents with mbrbm - since mbrbm is only 438 bytes Windows's VolumeID is also preserved!
   Same with modern lilo's DiskID.
   <LI>Due to mbrbm restriction to 1024 cylinders be aware to keep your booting OS partitions ("/", "/boot", "C:\")
   within the first 8 Gigabyte - anyway a good idea to separate the root-filesystem (again "/", "/boot", "C:\") from
   all other data (applications and user data).
  </UL>
  <A name="Important notices and limitations"></A>
  <H3>
   Important notices and limitations
  </H3>
  There are following limitations and configurations that have never been tested yet. All information related to the topics
  below is welcome (<A href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=180517">test cases, links to appropriate documentation,
  patches, etc.</A>)
  <UL>
   <LI>mbrbm supports so-called primary partitions (4 primary partitions). non-DOS partition tables are not supported.
   <LI>SCSI hard disks with BIOS support are tested.
   <LI>mbrbm works in configuration with RAID.
   <LI>mbrbm works in configuration with LVM.
   <LI>Microsoft Windows "dynamic disks" is not tested.
   <LI>mbrbm can boot records from primary partitions on second drive.
   <LI>mbrbm does check partition table for minor errors like standard DOS/Windows MBR does.
  </UL>
  <A name="Troubleshooting"></A>
  <H3>
   Troubleshooting
  </H3>
  If mbrbm does not work for some reason you may ask for support. What do you need to provide in order to get help:
  <OL>
   <LI>Is mbrbm installed properly? "dd if=/dev/hda bs=1 count=438 | md5sum" should match the mbrbm.md5 in the distribution tar
   <LI>Deinstall mbrbm - does the problem stay? Remember installation of mbrbm does only alter 438 bytes on the HD!
   <LI>Describe hardware configuration (disks subsystem: number of drives, their types (ATA, SATA, etc.), primary
   or secondary, sizes, etc.)
   <LI>Report the version of mbrbm you are using
   <LI>Explain the problem (crash, hanging, incorrect behavior, etc.)
   <LI>Describe partitioning scheme of your hard drives (sizes and filesystems on primary partitions and logical disks).
   Appropriate screenshots of fdisk may help as well.
   <LI>Provide a description of OSes you want to boot: where are they, how many oses you want to boot, what are they
   (brands+versions)
   <LI>What other boot-related software do you use (other boot managers for example on other hard disk, OS loaders like
   LILO, etc.)
  </OL>
  Not all items above are mandatory, but however if you provide quality feedback with much info describing your problem,
  I may help you with greater probability.
  <BR>
  But please don't forget - mbrbm is my hobby, there is no guarantee this software will work properly. I'm not responsible for
  any damage it may cause. Immediate support is also not guaranteed.
  <A name="Screenshots"></A>
  <H2>
   Screenshots
  </H2>
  Boot menu (mbrbm version 1.0):
  <BR>
  <IMG src="mbrbm.png" alt="Boot menu">
  <A name="Features"></A>
  <H2>
   Features
  </H2>
  <UL>
   <LI>May boot up to 8 operating systems from primary partitions of two disks
   <LI>MBR boot loader is written in Assembly language and compiled with NASM
   <LI>Supports user-defined boot by pressing an appropriate key ("0", "1", "2", "3", etc.)
   <LI>Supports boot timeout with loading of the active partition
   <LI>It fits into first 438 bytes of a 1st sector on a hard disk, not requiring separate partition to be allocated
   <LI>Supports all kind of hard disks supported by BIOS: ATA, SATA and SCSI
   <LI>Development of mbrbm requires only free software: Linux/xBSD and nasm
  </UL>
  <A name="Download"></A>
  <H2>
   Download
  </H2>
  <P>
  <TABLE border="1">
   <TR>
    <TD align="center">
     <B>
      Distribution file
     </B>
    </TD>
    <TD align="center">
     <B>
      Version number
     </B>
    </TD>
    <TD align="center">
     <B>
      Date
     </B>
    </TD>
    <TD align="center">
     <B>
      Status
     </B>
    </TD>
    <TD align="center">
     <B>
      Release short description
     </B>
    </TD>
   </TR>
   <TR>
    <TD>
     <A href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mbrbm/mbrbm-1.0.tar.gz?download">mbrbm-1.0.tar.gz</A>
    </TD>
    <TD>
     1.0
    </TD>
    <TD>
     October, 2006
    </TD>
    <TD bgcolor="lightgrey">
     Stable, production for compilation/install with Unix
    </TD>
    <TD>
     Current
    </TD>
   </TR>
   <TR>
    <TD>
     <A href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mbrbm/mbrbm-1.0.zip?download">mbrbm-1.0.zip</A>
    </TD>
    <TD>
     1.0
    </TD>
    <TD>
     October, 2006
    </TD>
    <TD bgcolor="lightgrey">
     Stable, production for install with FreeDOS
    </TD>
    <TD>
     Current
    </TD>
   </TR>
  </TABLE>
  <P>
  <A name="ToDo"></A>
  <H2>
   ToDo
  </H2>
  There are some plans for future. Feel free to <A href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=180517">suggest
  new features, send patches and improvements</A>:
  <OL>
   <LI>Strong optimization of assembly code in MBR
   <LI>LBA support. There are still 6 bytes free for code!
  </OL>
  <P>
  <A name="Contacts"></A>
  <H2>
   Contacts
  </H2>
  The recommended way to contact current maintainer is to use an appropriate mechanism on
  <A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbrbm/">sourceforge project site</A> (forum, tracker, bugs, feature requests, etc.).
  In the e-mail addresses below there is no hypertext references due to spam bots protection:
  <P>
  Current maintainer of mbrbm is <A href="http://sourceforge.net/users/freakout42/">Axel Reinhold</A>
  <UL>
   <LI>freakout42 __at__ users __dot__ sourceforge __dot__ net
  </UL>
  <P>
  Note: you need to replace " __dot__ " with "." and " __at__ " with "@" before using the addresses above.
  <BR>
  <P>
  <A name="Links"></A>
  <H2>
   Links
  </H2>
  Project related resources:
  <UL>
   <LI><A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbrbm/">Site at sourceforge</A>
  </UL>
  <P>
  Similar projects (other boot managers):
  <UL>
   <LI><A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbldr/">Master Boot LoaDeR</A>
   <LI><A href="http://penguin.cz/~mhi/mbtmgr/">MATTsoft Boot Manager</A>
   <LI><A href="http://xboot.sourceforge.net/">XBOOT Multi Boot</A>
   <LI><A href="http://btmgr.webframe.org/">Smart Boot Manager</A>
   <LI><A href="http://gag.sourceforge.net/">GAG, the Graphical Boot Manager</A>
   <LI><A href="http://www.ranish.com/part/">Ranish Partition Manager and XOSL Boot Manager</A>
  </UL>
  Assembly language descriptions and CPU instructions set
  <UL>
   <LI><A href="http://www.logix.cz/michal/doc/i386/">Intel 80386 Programmer's Reference Manual</A>
   <LI><A href="http://www.online.ee/~andre/i80386/">Intel 80386 Programmer's Reference 1986</A>
   <LI><A href="http://nasm.sourceforge.net/">NASM (Netwide Assembler)</A> and
   <A href="http://nasm.sourceforge.net/doc/html/nasmdoc0.html">NASM Manual</A>
   <LI><A href="http://rs1.szif.hu/~tomcat/win32/intro.txt">A general NASM guide for TASM coders and other ASM people</A>
  </UL>
  Partition tables and boot loaders
  <UL>
   <LI><A href="http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwtab.htm">How It Works: Partition Tables</A>
   <LI><A href="http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/asm/mbr/MBR_in_detail.htm">Boot Records Revealed!</A>
   <LI><A href="http://www.win.tue.nl/%7Eaeb/partitions/partition_types.html#toc2">Partition types</A>
  </UL>
  Development and packaging stuff
  <UL>
   <LI><A href="http://www.freedos.org/">FreeDOS - nice complete alternative to commercial MS-DOS operating system</A>
  </UL>
  BIOS and ATA specifications
  <UL>
   <LI><A href="http://www.t13.org/">Technical Committee T13 (AT Attachment)</A>
   <UL>
    <LI><A href="http://t13.org/docs2004/d1572r3-EDD3.pdf">
         BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services - 3 (EDD-3)</A>
    <LI><A href="http://t13.org/docs2002/d1410r3b-ATA-ATAPI-6.pdf">
         AT Attachment with Packet Interface - 6 (ATA/ATAPI-6)</A>
   </UL>
   <LI><A href="http://www.phoenix.com/">Phoenix Technologies</A>
   <UL>
    <LI><A href="http://www.phoenix.com/NR/rdonlyres/56E38DE2-3E6F-4743-835F-B4A53726ABED/0/specsbbs101.pdf">
         BIOS Boot Specification Version 1.01</A>
    <LI><A href="http://www.phoenix.com/NR/rdonlyres/19FEBD17-DB40-413C-A0B1-1F3F560E222F/0/specsedd30.pdf">
         Enhanced Disk Drive Specification Ver 3.0</A>
   </UL>
  </UL>
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  Last updated: October 23, 2006
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