BootMan
is Zeta's own boot manager. You will meet BootMan during the installation
of Zeta, and later when you want to change your boot settings.
At the end of the installation of Zeta you
will be asked by the Installer whether you want to install the Zeta
boot manager. If your system is already set up for dual/multiple
boot capabilities (for instance GRUB
or LILO), you will not need
to install BootMan. In fact, it can remove the possibilities for
you to boot in to your Linux distribution.
Choosing a Boot Volume
If you have installed BootMan, a Partition Manager Menu will
appear when you boot your computer. This menu is a list over bootable
volumes installed on your computer, with a pointer on your chosen
default boot volume.
By using the arrow keys on the keyboard, you can choose what volume
to boot from.
If you don't attend to the Partition Manager Menu with in
a predefined time (as set when you installed the boot loader), the
computer will automatically boot the default boot volume.
Changing the Default Boot Volume in BootMan
To change the default boot volume, you will have to boot in to Zeta
and choose BootMan from the Preference menu, or launch the application
from the Terminal by typing "bootman".
Click though the dialog boxes in BootMan to you get to the default
boot volume panel. Choose the volume that you want to have as your
new default boot volume. Next time you boot, you'll boot into this
new default volume.
If you have chosen to use another boot manager, you should refer
to the instructions it provides.
Installing the BootManager from Zeta and changing the boot menu
The BootMan application is built up as a set of dialog boxes
that you click your self through. The first dialog box ask you wether
you want to install or uninstall a Boot Menu, choose to Install
Boot Menu:

The second dialog box is telling you that the configuration that
you are about to make will be saved in the Master Boot Record
(MBR) on the boot device, and that a copy of the old boot configuration
file placed in the MDR will be saved to the following directory:
/boot/home/config/settings/bootman. It is possible to save
it to a different place, but we recommend that you keep the default
location.
The copy of the old boot configuration in the MDR will be copied
back if you later for one reason or an other would like to uninstall
Zeta's boot manager. The third dialog box will tell you that the
system managed to make a backup of the old configuration file and
that it was called MBR. As an extra safety, Bootman lets those of
you who still have a floppy drive on you computers, to make a rescue
disk. The rescue disk can be used to restore the MBR if something
goes wrong with the installation. If you computer contains other
operating systems (dual-boot), we recommend that you make such a
rescue disk.

The next dialog box is also important as it's where you choose
what partitions that should be part of the boot menu. BootMan detects
all the partions on your system, but often you have partions that
are not bootable. You should only add the partitions that are bootable
to this menu. BootMan lets you edit the name of the entries they
will have in the Boot Menu. The boot manager also shows
you what file system the partions have. From the screenshot you
can see that there are three different file systems: ntfs, bfs and
ext2.
The fifth dialog box lets you set the default partition that the
boot manager should boot unless you choose another one. You can
also set the time that the boot manager should wait for you to make
your decission, and if you have problems choosing what operating
system to boot, you can even set it to Wait Indefinitely.
The six dialog box is only showing you what partions you chose
to include in the Boot Menu. As you can see from the screenshot,
there has been included partions that are not bootable. The right
thing here would to choose Previous window twice, and reconfigure
the partitions you will have in the Boot Menu.
You will now be promted with the warning that is the last chance
for aborting the setup of a new MBR, as you are now about to write
your new configurations in the MBR file. Click Yes if you
would like to write the new configurations to the MBR file, other
wise click No to abort the procedure.
You have now made a new MBR file. Reboot you computer to test the
new MBR configuration.
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