It is not easy to fix the operating systems without having a large capacity hard disk. Boot Manager is a program that is capable to boot operating systems that are installed in separate partitions. It is also called as the stage zero of boot managing process. The machine will boot in to a boot loader program, installed separately on a different partition in the hard disk, which is also independent of the operating system. Boot loader is simply defined as, the program that can load operating system in to the memory. Boot Managers are those that can allow multiple operating systems to be loaded in the same computer. Some of the Examples of Boot Managers are, IBM’s Boot Manager, VCOM’s System Commander, etc.
The Boot Easy is a default boot manager. It can boot anything based on the selected partitions. It includes, BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), LINUX, WINDOWS 95, OS/2. OS/2 uses its own and separate partition whereas, the others use Master Boot Record (MBR). Windows 95 and Dos must be kept on the first partition of the first hard disk. OS/2 can be kept on the second disk. To avoid problems while booting, it is installed beyond 1024th cylinder. When it is in boot sector it can boot LINUX using LILO. If Windows 95 is installed on an existing BSD system, then the MBR has to be reinstalled again as it would have been deleted by previous boot manager. After this, we can write the information in to the MBR in the partition editor. Now the system can be rebooted with WINDOWS 95 and recognize it as DOS. The Smart Boot Manager (SBM) can also be used which is of high flexibility and also OS independent. Y2K bugs can be skipped in SBM. Password protection is also provided in SBM, which enhances the security of the system.
