[haiku-development] Re: Press Space for Boot Options in Bootloader

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:27:45 +0200

Le 26 oct. 2010 à 13:25, Truls Becken a écrit :

> On 2010-10-26, at 12:53, Alexandre Deckner wrote:
> 
>> I think that the most user friendly way is for the os to notice the
>> failed boot by itself and explain/propose a solution to the user, a
>> bit like Windows does. Also think for example when, in the future,
>> a faulty kernel or driver update could be reverted there.
> 
> That would solve it for most people, I guess, assuming it always manages to 
> record the failure. It will not help when Haiku locks up after boot, however. 
> Like it consistently does for me unless I disable Local APIC on every boot 
> (ticket 6005).

We can always have a flag in RAM telling we were still booting.
This combined with the BFS CLEN flag should tell if we booted correctly or 
not...

François.

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