[haiku-development] Re: bootable cdrom/installer
- From: Richard Jasmin <jasminr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 20:37:32 -0400
Oh, I thought we DID chainload zbeos kernel or the BE FS,though, at
least the old way we did.The new setup is ok.
Needs some newer drivers,though.
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 12:49 +0200, Jonas Sundström wrote:
> 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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