[openbeos] Re: Booting using an USB pen-drive (almost...).

  • From: Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:01:53 +0200

Simon Taylor wrote:

> I think the bios emulation only goes as far as getting the bootloader up
> and starting the kernel. Then the kernel needs to take over - which it
> would do using the incomplete USB stack. I think it's an unimplemented
> feature - but definitely one that is coming :)

That's exact. Until we got USB fully working, the kernel wont be able to load
the system from an USB drive.
Meanwhile, only the Haiku's bootloader could be loaded, thanks to your BIOS's
USB drive -> IDE disk emulation. Which is the only purpose of such emulation.

- Philippe

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