[haiku-development] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add Multiboot Support to the Stage2 loader.
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:07:05 +0200 CEST
>
> On 2008-09-09 at 13:02:41 [+0200], Dustin Howett <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > I was having trouble booting Haiku from a partition on my Acer
> > Aspire
> > One, so I added multiboot support to zbeos.
> [...]
>
> To be honest, I think this is a development into the wrong direction.
> I don't
> see any advantage in supporting multiboot. If you have trouble
> booting Haiku
> with the current boot method, it would be much better to fix the
> problems
> rather than adding another method.
Actually it could be useful for places when one wants to have more
control over boot, like emulators which can bootstrap kernels like
qemu... it can also pass args. It could allow automatic testing of the
same image with different boot options.
It could also be useful for very weird hw which only grub can boot on,
until the issue is located and fixed.
As long as users are not confused by ppl making it harder than it
should be ("add zbeos in an ext2 partition, add it as a linux kernel
(WTF linux here?), ...").
François.
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