Opened 16 years ago
Last modified 5 months ago
#3822 new enhancement
Installer should know how to include Haiku in an existing Grub menu
| Reported by: | jonas.kirilla | Owned by: | korli |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Applications/Installer | Version: | R1/pre-alpha1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | planche2k@… | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | #16217 | |
| Platform: | All |
Description
Regarding hrev30372:
It would be extra nice if Installer could figure out if Grub is being used, and add itself to the existing Grub menu.lst file. (Not even all Linux users know how Grub works.)
This depends on Haiku support for Linux filesystem.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
| Cc: | added |
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comment:2 by , 5 years ago
| Milestone: | R1 → Unscheduled |
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comment:3 by , 5 years ago
| Blocking: | 16217 added |
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comment:4 by , 5 years ago
I don't think that this is needed because Haiku already has BootMan. Also GRUB is not standard like EFI so Haiku is not required to support it. If someone want it, it can be implemented as third-party software.
comment:5 by , 5 months ago
I don't thinkk this is possible at all. Grub2 is usually managed by some installation of another OS. And atleast debian does no longer use os-prober by default. So any entry Haiku adds would be removed on the next update, unless we hijack the linux install to add this info. I don't think we should do that, maybe provide a guide on the website on how to add this to grub and link to it if grub is found to be installed.
Note that on OpenSolaris GRUB uses ZFS filesystem rather than Linux' ext2.
Also note that GRUB may be x86-/amd64-specific since Linux uses
yabooton ppc for instance. Not sure about m68k/arm.