Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #7930, comment 13


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Aug 18, 2011, 8:07:53 PM (13 years ago)
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  • Ticket #7930, comment 13

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    1 I'm not sure if this can really be called a bug: When I install any operating system to a partition I expect to have to install some kind of boot manager to the mbr in order to be able to boot the operating system (Windows and some linux distributions do this without asking the user - nasty behaviour in a multiboot environment). Right before the installation, Haiku even warns the user that either Haiku has to be added to a boot manager like Grub manually or Haiku's boot menu should be installed to prevent boot failures such as described here. If the boot menu is installed, I can boot Haiku even if it resides on a BFS partion inside an Intel Partition Map.
     1I'm not sure if this can really be called a bug: When I install any operating system to a partition I expect to have to install some kind of boot manager to the mbr in order to be able to boot the operating system (Windows and some linux distributions do this without asking the user - nasty behaviour in a multiboot environment), or at least to have to mark the partition as active. Right before the installation, Haiku even warns the user that either Haiku has to be added to a boot manager like Grub manually or Haiku's boot menu should be installed to prevent boot failures such as described here. If the boot menu is installed (or the haiku partition is set as active), I can boot Haiku even if it resides on a BFS partion inside an Intel Partition Map.
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    3 So this "bug" could rather be changed to an enhancement request: if there is only one partition (therefore no other operating systems on the disk that could be affected) install the boot menu to the mbr by default (wouldn't please me but possibly other users).
     3So this "bug" could rather be changed to an enhancement request: if there is only one partition (therefore no other operating systems on the disk that could be affected) mark the partition as active or install the boot menu to the mbr by default (wouldn't please me but possibly other users).
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     5EDIT: The Haiku boot menu is not mentioned before the installation but rather in the user guide (humdinger introduced a new BootManager entry) - my fault. So maybe, a reminder that the (only) partition should be set to active (I hope Haiku's DriveSetup supports more than one active partition if there is more than one disk) or - that alternatively a boot menu/manager should be installed could be added?