[openbeos] Re: Booting using an USB pen-drive (almost...).

"Michael Lotz" <mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:36:04 +0100, Simon Taylor wrote
> > I think the bios emulation only goes as far as getting the 
> > bootloader up and starting the kernel. Then the kernel needs to 
> > take 
> > over - which it would do using the incomplete USB stack. I think 
> > it's an unimplemented feature - but definitely one that is coming 
> > :)
> The USB stack is complete in this regard. The part missing is the USB 
> Mass
> Storage driver. The driver is present in the Haiku tree and can be 
> built for
> BeOS R5, but it has not yet been ported to the new SCSI subsystem 
> under Haiku.
> There is already work going on in that regard, you can follow the
> corresponding ticket here: http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1106

Also, the kernel currently ignores when the boot loader reports a USB 
boot device (which it can only do if you have a modern and working 
BIOS). That doesn't mean it wouldn't boot from USB, it just means that 
it might boot from another volume if one is available.

Bye,
   Axel.

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