[haiku-development] Re: FileMapDisk aka IMAGE.BE
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:21:03 +0200 CEST
"David Powell" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2008/8/15 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I really can't imagine many people to boot Haiku via floppy,
> > anymore. I
> > only have one (laptop) left with a floppy at all, anyway. So at
> > least
> > that doesn't seem to be a good reason :-)
> > One advantage of doing it this way, however, would be to be able to
> > support file systems that are otherwise not supported by the
> > system;
> > adding file system support to the boot loader is definitely less
> > work
> > than writing a real one.
> I don't know if it makes any difference, but I have an eBox-2300
> ( http://www.embeddedpc.net/Default.aspx?tabid=110 ) that
> I'd like to get Haiku running on. However the BIOS only supports USB
> floppy drives and USB memory sticks formatted as a floppy disks, so
> it currently won't boot a "normal" Haiku image on a USB stick.
> It may be that Floppy boot support is still needed for booting Haiku
> off a USB stick on such BIOS equipped PC's.
> Then again, I could be talking rubbish.
I dunno :-)
Haiku still supports booting via floppy - it's just the question of
whether this is a common boot method or not (for the file map boot
method).
Bye,
Axel.
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