[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #3545: bootman : implement multi-drive support
- From: "pulkomandy" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:06:41 -0000
#3545: bootman : implement multi-drive support
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Reporter: mmadia | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1/beta1
Component: System/Kernel | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking: 2477
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
An alternative solution would be to override interrupt 13 in the boot
manager to swap the drives. Smart Boot Manager does this, for example:
http://sourceforge.net/p/btmgr/code/HEAD/tree/manager/myint13h.asm
This allows booting from another drive without cooperation from the booted
OS. Makes it possible to boot things other than Haiku from other drives.
Is there a strong desire to keep bootman, or would it be acceptable to
ship with Smart Boot Manager instead? It seems there is little interest in
improving bootman so maybe we should just ship something that works
instead. And with UEFI this will soon be irrelevant anyway.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3545#comment:7>
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