[haiku] Re: Haiku Installer: "Write Boot Sector to Haiku" button
- From: André Braga <meianoite@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:43:22 -0300
2009/9/15 Michael Lotz <mmlr@xxxxxxxx>:
> What makes the active partition boot on a traditional system is not the
> BIOS. It is a seperate chainloader written to the MBR by most
> partitioning software. Our intel partition map add-on doesn't do so
> right now, which can render a disk unbootable if you partition it that
> way. Marking the partition active then has no effect. We do have a MBR
> chainloader that finds and chainloads the active partition in src/bin/
> writembr. It works and we should really add this to our intel partition
> map addon.
[plug]
Or, just in case future-proofing is a desirable quality:
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4028
[/plug]
:)
Cheers,
A.
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