[haiku-development] Re: Graphical Boot Loader

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:03:29 +0100 CET

> Gabriele Biffi writes:
>
> >
> > You are not supposed to load MacOS from the Haiku boot loader...

He was talking about bootman

> I don't generally think the boot loader should care what I run from
> it. I
> think the problem has to do with making the partition active.
> Anyways, GRUB
> works for now.

It's actually not a boot "loader" but a boot chooser or boot manager,
that chains to the wanted OS bootloader.
In case of GRUB it happens to know how to boot linux directly so it's
also a boot loader.
But the two are not the same.

François.

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