[openbeos] Re: Stage 1 Bootloader

> Well, as I said, I will have a look at it. If it is very similar to
> what we need and want to have, I will make it compliant, but I (myself)
> won't spend any time at improving GRUB to be able to load from a BFS
> partition.
> Which means that you'd have to copy the files needed to a special
> partition that GRUB can access, too, to boot with it, if you don't want
> to use our stage 2 boot loader. Anyway, being multiboot compliant (even
> if we are) won't mean that you can boot with GRUB the same way as with
> the native loader. BFS is one reason, the driver settings are another,
> and there might even be more.

I don't get this.

Are you saying that we need to have the mbr dedicated to beos, only,
bootloader?

If not, then you can store bootloader in beos partition itself then in
grub do:

root hdc0,4
chainloader +1
boot

This assumes that your on the third partition of the third hard disk.

Grub is your friend.

Fred

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