[haiku-commits] Re: r40149 - haiku/trunk/src/apps/bootmanager
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:00:35 +0100
Hi Michael,
Michael Pfeiffer <michael.w.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > + status_t status = ioctl(fd, B_GET_BIOS_DRIVE_ID, drive, 1);
> > + close(fd);
> > + return status;
> Has B_GET_BIOS_DRIVE_ID been implemented? If not, at least it would
> explain, why
> booting now fails after selecting a partition in the boot manager.
Thanks for looking that up, but that neither has been implemented in
the mean time, nor is it the reason for the failure. I've changed the
boot manager to use zero as BIOS drive for the boot menu, so that it
will always use the correct one for the paritions on the boot drive.
It will just make it work to boot partitions from other drives once
someone implements this. Since it's really only needed for that
usecase, I would guess the need for this is rather low, though, with
EFI/GPT right around the corner.
> The screen shows:
> Loading Haiku
> read error
This problem should be fixed with r40167, at least I can now boot my
system again, and I see no reason why it shouldn't work for others as
well.
> BTW is seems the "Uninstall" button is always disabled on the first
> page
> in Boot Manager.
Yes, that's actually caused by a TODO that I did not implement either;
ie. the detection of an installed boot menu :-)
It's just worse now, since it prevents removing the menu (but who would
want to do that, anyway, huh?).
Bye,
Axel.
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