[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #7930: Boot failure in Virtualbox and Virtual PC with Latest nightly build when a BeFS partition is created within an Intel Partition Map instead of initializing the entire disk as BeFS without the Intel Partition Map
- From: "taos" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:14:16 -0000
#7930: Boot failure in Virtualbox and Virtual PC with Latest nightly build when
a
BeFS partition is created within an Intel Partition Map instead of
initializing the entire disk as BeFS without the Intel Partition Map
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Reporter: HaikuReactOSTrac | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: - General | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by taos):
I'm not sure if this can really be called a bug: When I install any
operating system to a partition I expect to have to install some kind of
boot manager to the mbr in order to be able to boot the operating system
(Windows and some linux distributions do this without asking the user -
nasty behaviour in a multiboot environment). Right before the
installation, Haiku even warns the user that either Haiku has to be added
to a boot manager like Grub manually or Haiku's boot menu should be
installed to prevent boot failures such as described here. If the boot
menu is installed, I can boot Haiku even if it resides on a BFS partion
inside an Intel Partition Map.
So this "bug" could rather be changed to an enhancement request: if there
is only one partition (therefore no other operating systems on the disk
that could be affected) install the boot menu to the mbr by default
(wouldn't please me but possibly other users).
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7930#comment:13>
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