Opened 6 months ago
Last modified 6 months ago
#18639 new enhancement
at installation use of BootManager, copy initial MBR to final install partition
| Reported by: | vicky | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Applications/BootManager | Version: | R1/beta4 |
| Keywords: | MBR restore, Uninstall, bootmanager | Cc: | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description (last modified by )
When installing Haiku first time, for example from a USB drive, and if use BootManager tool from Installer to create boot menu, it makes a backup of the original MBR on the USB.
Suggestion: that file should be copied to the final install partition. Ideally, further backups should create MBR files with distinct names, not to overwrite them.
Why:
After a while, user might forget to preserve that bootable USB just for that initial MBR file, or not realize that the file is on usb and not in the default location ~/config/settings/bootman/ as explained on https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/bootmanager.html
Initially suggested on https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/uninstall-boot-manager-button-greyed-out/14125/2?u=vic
