Simple User Guide for Smart Boot Manager 3.x: Compatibility

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## 5. Compatibility

## 5.1 Hardware compatibility

Smart BootManager supports the Intel i386 platform only. Extended Int 13h (LBA standard) for Large disk (over 8G) is supported. Old CHS standard is supported as well.

## 5.2 Known bugs of Smart Boot Manager 3.0

There are following known bugs available in current version:

- I found that there are some kind of mother boards that have buggy BIOS's, which can cause Smart Boot Manager to fail to find all of the drives and partitions.

## 5.3 Compatible OSes

The following OSes are tested to be able to boot via Smart BootManager:

- GNU/Linux x86
- FreeBSD
- BeOS
- OS/2
- QNX
- Solaris x86 (only Solaris 8 was tested)
- Novell Netware
- Microsoft DOS, Windows 9x, Windows NT and Windows 2000

Other Operating Systems should be supported as well, but I have not had a chance to test them. If you can test them, please let me know the results.

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