[openbeos] Re: Installing Haiku onto Partition; Missed Step?

  • From: Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:28:27 +0100

On 5 feb 2007, at 02.04, Mat Hounsell wrote:

Actually this is a grub issue that might need documenting.

Grub must be told not to look at the partition as it doesn't understand BeFS.

rootnoverify (hd0,0)

NOT root (hd0,0)


Now I just need to workout why it hangs.

Some related info:

"Installing GRUB natively"
(The big picture.)
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB- natively.html#Installing-GRUB-natively

"Load another boot loader to boot unsupported operating systems"
(Such as Haiku.)
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/ Chain_002dloading.html#Chain_002dloading

"Syllable and Grub"
(Mentions how to add BeOS to the mix.)
(Syllable is supported by their patched version of Grub.)
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jac208/

/Jonas Sundström.


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