[haiku-commits] Re: r40167 - haiku/trunk/src/apps/bootmanager

  • From: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.w.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 07:50:18 +0100

Am 09.01.2011 um 00:27 schrieb Axel Dörfler:

> Michael Pfeiffer <michael.w.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Am 08.01.2011 um 22:24 schrieb axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>> * Therefore, I moved the BIOS drive to the stack, and now the boot 
>>> menu finally
>>> actually works.
>> You probably want load the value from to stack here too:
>> http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/apps/bootmanager/bootman.S?rev=40167#L574
>> 
> I thought it would be good to give the BIOS its usual boot volume on 
> reboot. You think it makes more sense to "restart" the menu?

I didn't think much about that, I thought it was an oversight,
because in [1] also the passed in drive is used. 
In [2] the use case was that the boot drive is selected in the BIOS. 
So it could be the usual boot volume isn't even bootable.

- Michael
[1] 
http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/apps/bootmanager/bootman.S?rev=40167#L302
[2] http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3443

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