[haiku-development] Re: booting from partition on flash drive
- From: Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:39:04 -0400
On Sep 21, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Alan Searchwell wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> I'm affraid I'm not a developer myself although as a hobbyist I used
> to mess around with MS Basic and a little bit of assembly years ago.
>
>> Odd, have you tried the Live-CD?
>
> No, I,m assuming that will work, I'm more interested in
> understanding how the boot process works with flash drives.
Ah okay, I was under the impression you were only trying to boot in
general.
>
>> With Haiku in Alpha it might be too late to ask for that.
>
> Actually no, this is not really a part of haiku but a tool for
> making a haiku partition bootable and the source is available. It's
> just not available as a binary for non programmers like me. I guess
> I'll just have to try a little compiling.
I was referring to prebuilt binaries, since Haiku can host itself,
there is little need to get binaries for makebootable out there for
other systems.
>
>> Your approach should be fine, only one way to find out.
>
> Like I said, time to try some compiling.
>
Sorry about the confusion on my side.
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