[haiku-development] Re: haiku_loader never appears on my screen (resolved)
- From: André Braga <meianoite@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 21:02:34 -0300
On 27 May 2011 20:30, Starsseed <starsseed@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Since LBA is a sector_adress, the code can handle 512*4GiB = 2TiB
> (vs 8GiB for 24bits CHS based adresses)
> Also, standard MBRs anly store 32 bits values for LBA adresses, so boot
> loaders
> don't need to handle 48 bits adresses.
Hm, true. Forgot about that. GPT LBAs are 64-bit, though, so I still
need 64-bit addressing :)
> From: "Fredrik Holmqvist" <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx>
> So far, the greatest part of the PC that I tested did not boot the
> "anyboot-image".
> So it's critical to me.
>
> we could merge the patch in the trunk, and wait as late as possible to see
> if it should
> be merged in the Alpha 3 branch ?
+1 for the short term, as there are plenty of people for whom anyboot
simply does not work; after alpha3 I'd like to see if anyboot can
incorporate the hybrid GPT/MBR loader, with whatever fixed your boot,
if possible.
Cheers,
A.
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