[haiku] Re: Haiku support for USB drives
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:13:17 +0100 CET
Nicholas Blachford <nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Annoyingly it appears to be just as slow though. This is not the
> drives fault (writing is very fast from a Mac). An optimisation for
> later methinks...
USB is also unbelievably slow on my laptop. I'm not sure what's wrong
there, as I haven't looked into it yet. Could have something to do with
the BIOS putting all devices on a single interrupt line.
> Anyway it's left me with a question...
>
> Anyone have any idea how I get a machine to boot off a bootable
> partition?
> Getting it to boot is easy if there's only one partition, but how do
> I
> set it up if there's 2?
There is the BootManager (currently just called "bootman", as in BeOS)
that you can use to get a boot menu capable of booting to different
partitions (just use it from your Haiku installation).
Bye,
Axel.
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