[haiku] Re: Debian Installer 7.0a1 adds Haiku on BeFS detection
- From: <jimmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 23:16:55 -0400
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On May 13, 2012 6:26 PM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 14/05/2012 00:10, Julius Bullinger wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> Quoted from
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2012/20120513:
>
>> Operating system probing
>
>> Add detection for Windows 8, support for BSD systems, MeeGo, Linux
>> From Scratch and Haiku on BeFS partitions.
>
> Who can we thank for this achievement? Did it come from the Haiku
> community, or was it a Debian decision?
More or less, yes:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590897
Now, did you really test it? Last I tried, the install kernel was
missing the befs.ko module required to actually see the BFS partitions.
François.
I have Debian 7 running and yes it loads and mounts BeFS and lists the OS in GRUB as Haiku.
Nice!
Jimmy
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