[haiku-development] Re: Graphical Boot Loader
- From: "Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:48:43 -0500
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Petter H. Juliussen
<mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I didn't know there was a 512 bytes limit, and that probably makes a
> graphical boot loader difficult. Dunno what SUSE does though. Maybe an own
> partition if thats the only way. I never said it would be interesting if you
> would have to dedicate an own partition to the boot loader. The idea was
> refreshing it a tad.
Grub generally relies on being able to load additional program
binaries off a partition format it can understand (hence the presence
of the /boot/grub subdir). It cannot fit into a 512 byte boot sector
and work off just that. That will hold true for pretty much any boot
loader that wants to be "fancy".
Regards,
Rene
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