On 2010-09-02 at 23:33:04 [+0200], Justin Stressman <jstressman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As someone else pointed out... there is already a "haiku_loader" as the 2nd > stage loader and "bootman" is the 1st stage loader (in the MBR). The first > stage loader (bootman) passes things off to the second stage ( > /system/haiku_loader ). That's actually not quite correct. bootman chain-loads the stage 1 loader (from the partition's first sector), which in turn loads the stage 2 loader (haiku_loader). CU, Ingo