Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. bootman is the Haiku and BeOS boot loader on x86 systems. It resides solely in the master boot record and does not require installing Haiku or BeOS, although it must be installed from Haiku or BeOS. It is filesystem-agnostic, and boots an operating system as if it were being booted directly from the hardware. As such, it can boot virtually any operating system. It can also chainload GRUB, LILO and NTLDR. However, being independent of an OS prevents it being able to boot any disks which are not accessible via BIOS I/O routines (e.g. int 13), with the exception of BeOS disk-in-a-file images on FAT32, NTFS or ext2 file systems.

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