There are a million boot managers out there. A boot manager, in case you didn't know, is something the OS geeks like myself use to select which OS to boot when the computer is restarted. It can be very useful for testing purposes. Say you want to see if your software works on Win98, or on some flavor of Linux. If you have the hard drive space, you create a new partition and install a completely standalong OS.
This is different than an emulator like Virtual PC or, even better, VMWare. Emulators run like just another program, and can bring the buffest hardware to its knees.
By using a boot manager, you can get a truly pristine setup. FreeBSD has its own boot manager - most non-Windows OSes will install their own, allowing you to choose between the dark side and the side of light and goodness. But the native ones are generally pretty basic, and don't give you things like partition managers, wizards, graphical interfaces, etc.
I've used a couple in my time. I used to be a huge fan of System Commander. I used it from version 1 up until last year, and was very happy with it. Easy to use, very smart, a great product.
But last year I started running into plenty of problems with it. The display would be garbled, and it just wouldn't work. I got less than satisfactory help from the VCom folks, so I started looking around.
Now I use BootIt NG from Terrabyte Unlimited. A shareware product that has worked very well for me. It's a little less easy to use, but has proven to be very powerful. While you're at the site, be sure to check out other, Windows, freeware utilities like BurnCDCC, which is a very easy to use ISO burner.
There are some freeware ones out there too. Grub is a standard one in the Linux world.
Here is GAG, a freeware one. I'll give it a shot on my test machine and see how it does:
The home page of GAG - main
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