[haiku-development] Re: Graphical Boot Loader
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:05:48 +0100 CET
> This proposal is already rejected, because you don't have Haiku in
> the list
> of installed OS. :-P
+1 :p
> But seriously, it may be that this is not possible given the size
> constraints for the boot manager code.
The goal of bootman, like the original BeOS version, is to be installed
anywhere, that is, to fit into the 512 bytes (a little more actually,
atleast the BeOS used part of the 2nd sector) of the MBR.
Grub's complex shell and graphical splash means it needs many more
sectors, which are not always available. This means it must be
installed from the start.
François.
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