[haiku-development] Re: Bootman

Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 13:55:18 schrieb François Revol:
> > Michael Pfeiffer <michael.w.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Am 27.03.2008 um 20:53 schrieb David Dengg:
> > > > If somebody could write the BeOS app we could merge it with my
> > > > bootcode.
> > >
> > > Do we need a replacement for bootman? If so I would like to
> > > volunteer.
> >
> > That would be great!
> > We definitely need something that provides a similar functionality,
> > it
> > doesn't need to look like the current bootman (GUI), of course :-)
>
> It would also be nice to have it platform independant as much as
> possible (add-ons ?).
> I noticed the makebootable code will have to be copied mostly for the
> m68k port if I want to support booting from the MBR.
>
> François.

I have never written asm code for other platforms (except some µC) and I have 
no idea of the bootprocess of those machines.
Will you write a GUI Michael? I was not able to find a function to get the LBA 
of the available partitions. Is there one?

David

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