[haiku-development] Re: bootable cdrom/installer
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 12:49:16 +0200 CEST
Richard Jasmin <jasminr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I need to make a new one.The live cd option
> works on build, but I was suggesting dropping
> the files into a folder and giving grub the
> kernel to boot.Of course this may require you
> to recompile grub to boot beos filesystem.Its
> not a patch but a method.
I find it difficult to understand what problem
you are trying to solve and the exact nature of
your solution.
I am guessing that few (maybe none) of all Grub
boot managers installed "out there" are able to
understand BFS and boot Haiku -directly-.
Without Grub chain-loading the BFS partition´s
bootcode in the (msdos partition layout-) standard
location.
If my assumption is correct, then it would be a
seriously worse to ask people to recompile their
Grub with support for BFS, than for us to offer
Haiku partition bootcode and instruct people to
set up standard Grub chain-loading of Haiku.
(Naturally, this does not exclude the possibilty
for Haiku to itself to edit people´s existing Grub
settings to hook itself up with chainloading - when
at some future date, Haiku knows some/most/all of
the filesystem on which Grubs settings usually live.)
/Jonas.
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