Haiku partition detection not working?

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Haiku partition detection not working?

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: kallisti5

Created: 2013-04-07

Updated: 2013-04-19

kallisti5 - 2013-04-07

Hello! I noticed in the most recent refind that there was logic to try and pick up on Haiku partitions (by looking for haiku_loader)

However, in usage it doesn't seem to be working. I enabled the bios detection and only get an unknown partition that shows a blinking cursor when I try to boot it.

Thoughts?

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kallisti5 - 2013-04-07

ok, I enabled debugging and saw it identify the legacy partition as "Haiku"

This raises a few questions like: why isn't it picking up the Haiku icon? Why does it still read as "Legacy boot record" vs naming it Haiku?

Still digging.

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Roderick W. Smith - 2013-04-19

If you're using a UEFI-based PC, you'll only see a generic boot icon for any BIOS-mode OS; you'll see OS-specific icons only on Macs. I don't have a Haiku OS installation of my own for testing, so my ability to debug the problems you're seeing is very limited. Perhaps one day I'll install Haiku myself, but doing so is pretty low on my priority list. In the meantime, if you find a way to improve the code, I'm happy to accept patches.

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