Though I think it would be a great feature for Haiku to boot from an image file I know that it isn't possible yet. I was actually talking about my problems with R5, which does have this ability. For whatever reason it doesn't like my 3 gig image though, perhaps because it's fragmented? I think I'll try another tack - are Haiku and R5 both happy to reside on logical partitions? Simon > > From: Mat Hounsell <mat_geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2007/02/09 Fri AM 01:42:55 GMT > To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [openbeos] Re: Haiku VMware video driver in BeOS 5 PE? > > GRUB has some file system support in it's bootloader. The verifying of the > file system prevented haiku for booting fo me. > It also can allow you to load some number of blocks after with it's > 'chainloader'. > > It might be more productive to add the support to booting a file of fat into > grub. Then keep in X blocks at the start of the file essential boot code, > disk access and fs support. Then grub could chain load those blocks and your > up and running. It does this for the linux kernel vmlinuz. > > In fact it may already be able to do much of it. > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam