Opened 4 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#16946 closed bug (duplicate)

Ensure EFI bootloader gets placed onto filesystem

Reported by: kallisti5 Owned by: nobody
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: System/Boot Loader Version: R1/beta2
Keywords: haiku_loader efi bios_ia32 Cc:
Blocked By: #15918 Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

The bios_ia32 bootloader gets placed at /boot/system/haiku_loader.bios_ia32. However, the EFI bootloader doesn't make it into the haiku_loader package. (thus isn't updatable post-install)

The way our boot process is designed, the bios_ia32 loader has to be the "first" file within the haiku_loader hpkg... however the EFI bootloader could be added afterwards.

I remember doing this in the past, but it was reverted because the bios_ia32 wasn't guarenteed to be first with our current tooling causing inconsistent booting issues.

tldr; we need to ensure all bootloaders for a platform get into haiku_loader... and the bios_ia32 is always the "first entry" in the package as a special one-off. (or we need to create multiple haiku_loader packages and adjust our MBR code to search for the haiku_loader_bios_ia32 one)

Change History (1)

comment:1 by pulkomandy, 4 years ago

Blocked By: 15918 added
Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed
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