Re: Latest build not booting

"Axel Dörfler" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.kernel.devel
Message-ID <342104486-BeMail@zon>
"François Revol" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the note, I've fixed it now - the new driver loading 
> > mechanism didn't find any drivers on bootfs, because the directory 
> > layout is different (because bootfs supports only very short 
> > paths).
> > Anyway, the recommended way of booting Haiku is using the hard 
> > drive. 
> > The boot floppy version has already several features missing, and 
> > will be removed in the future.
> Hmm, how do you intend to boot from CD then ?

With the boot loader; it can already load and execute itself from a 
floppy/CD, it just needs tarfs support. The current floppy boot is 
based on the NewOS boot loader, and we do not want to adopt it.

Bye,
   Axel.



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