Opened 13 months ago

Last modified 13 months ago

#18639 new enhancement

at installation use of BootManager, copy initial MBR to final install partition

Reported by: vicky Owned by: nobody
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 vicky)

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

Change History (1)

comment:1 by vicky, 13 months ago

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