Comment 11 for bug 57379

2007/5/6, DustinHarriman <email address hidden>:
> Hello Henrik,
>
> Glad to hear you're on the case, and there is momentum behind this
> issue.

I too am glad. The project is already approved in Launchpad, and at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(Linux_distribution)#_ref-0 it says
"There are currently plans to officially include Wubi or a similar
tool in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.[3][4]" It's excellent!

> I have another possibility for you to add to
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallerForWindows
>
> "Smart Boot Manager"
> http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html
> Summary: "Smart Boot Manager (SBM) is an OS independent and
> full-featured boot manager with an easy-to-use user interface. SBM
> now supports booting from CD-ROM."
>
> It's GPL'ed too!
>
> Perhaps SBM could be installable from the menu that pops up when you
> insert the Ubuntu CD while in Windows. SBM could be installed to the
> MBR allowing the default booting to CD (and optionally Windows, just
> in case). After SBM is installed to the MBR, then ask the user to
> simply reboot with the Ubuntu CD still in the drive. Then SBM could
> be used (from the MBR) to chainload boot to their Ubuntu CD, **thereby
> bypassing the need to change the BIOS settings**. The Ubuntu install
> process would then overwrite SBM in the MBR as it installs grub.
> Which is fine, as the purpose of installing Ubuntu is served.
>
> Note: Future booting from CD (say, to use a rescue CD later on) could
> still be made possible in this convenient fashion by the Ubuntu
> install process making a grub menu entry to boot SBM not from the MBR,
> but from the root filesystem of Ubuntu, much like memtest86 is done.
> Here is info on how to do that:
> "GRUB/Chainloaded CD-ROM"
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Chainloading_a_bootable_CD-ROM_from_GRUB
>

Hmm, it sounds like you want to allow the Ubuntu liveCD's Windows
portion to install SBM so that users can boot from CD without changing
the boot order in their BIOS. Interesting idea. Dustin, I will
forward your message to the ubuntu-devel list right now.

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