[openbeos] Re: Haiku VMware video driver in BeOS 5 PE?

Though I think it would be a great feature for Haiku to boot from an image file 
I know that it isn't possible yet. I was actually talking about my problems 
with R5, which does have this ability.

For whatever reason it doesn't like my 3 gig image though, perhaps because it's 
fragmented? 

I think I'll try another tack - are Haiku and R5 both happy to reside on 
logical partitions?

Simon

> 
> From: Mat Hounsell <mat_geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2007/02/09 Fri AM 01:42:55 GMT
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: Haiku VMware video driver in BeOS 5 PE?
> 
> GRUB has some file system support in it's bootloader. The verifying of the 
> file system prevented haiku for booting fo me.
> It also can allow you to load some number of blocks after with it's 
> 'chainloader'.
> 
> It might be more productive to add the support to booting a file of fat into 
> grub. Then keep in X blocks at the start of the file essential boot code, 
> disk access and fs support. Then grub could chain load those blocks and your 
> up and running. It does this for the linux kernel vmlinuz.
> 
> In fact it may already be able to do much of it.
> 
> 
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