Welcome to AiR-BOOT

AiR-BOOT is a boot-manager that is small and yet contains a load of interesting features.
It was developed by Martin Kiewitz and the first versions appeared around 2002.

With the introduction of newer Windows versions (Vista/7), that use a separate boot-partition,
problems occured when using IBM Boot Manager, the default boot-manager supplied with eComStation.
Also the introduction of huge harddisks (>502GiB) caused incompatibility issues.

While the v1.06 version of AiR-BOOT could almost be used as a replacement for the aging IBM-BM,
a couple of things needed to be fixed.

This was done upon the v1.06 code-base resulting in v1.07.
With the release of eComStation v2.1, AiR-BOOT replaces IBM Boot Manager.

AiR-BOOT is in active development to enhance it's functionality and user experience.
It's goal is to have all operating-systems, great-and-small, peacefully live together on your disks.

Downloads

The eComStation adapted versions can be downloaded here:
​AiR-BOOT versions for eComStation

Please keep in mind that RC versions are not final releases so take the necessary precautions before using them.
(Like making a backup of your MBR)

Support

AiR-BOOT is a ​Netlabs project. The project URL is AiR-BOOT

The maintainers monitor usual eComStation mailing lists and newsgroups.

You must be logged into TRAC to create tickets. Please login with your ​Netlabs login id. If you do not have a login id, you can request one at ​http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/member/member.xml. If you have troubles acquiring a ​Netlabs login id send an e-mail to

Netlabs Community Mailing List (community at netlabs.org)

License

Air-boot is open source software under the GNU GPL V3+ license.

Problems

If you encounter problems while using AiR-BOOT, please submit a ticket at the link below.
(Be sure to state the version you are using)
​http://svn.netlabs.org/air-boot/newticket
For questions and / or suggestions you can e-mail to: rousseau.ecsdev-at-gmail.com

Original Author

Martin Kiewitz
The last version by the hand of Martin:
​AiR-BOOT v1.06 (2009/06/08)