[haiku] Re: Haiku support for USB drives

Nicholas Blachford <nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Annoyingly it appears to be just as slow though.  This is not the  
> drives fault (writing is very fast from a Mac).  An optimisation for  
> later methinks...

USB is also unbelievably slow on my laptop. I'm not sure what's wrong 
there, as I haven't looked into it yet. Could have something to do with 
the BIOS putting all devices on a single interrupt line.

> Anyway it's left me with a question...
> 
> Anyone have any idea how I get a machine to boot off a bootable  
> partition?
> Getting it to boot is easy if there's only one partition, but how do 
> I  
> set it up if there's 2?

There is the BootManager (currently just called "bootman", as in BeOS) 
that you can use to get a boot menu capable of booting to different 
partitions (just use it from your Haiku installation).

Bye,
   Axel.

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