Talk:BootManager

Not that anyone cares: It resides solely in the master boot record False. It can be installed to a particular partition.

with the exception of BeOS disk-in-a-file images on FAT32. Or EXT2 filesystems.

Whoever wrote that entry ought to be shot. Such a short page and two glaring mistakes.

And then there's the garbage about LILO. BeOS wasn't even designed to run on x86 hardware until after version 4, prior to that it ran on Mac PPC604 PCI hardware and a Hobbit-based machine called the BeBox.


 * Wrong, right, WOEFULLY wrong. Bootman can't be installed to a parition; BeOS image.be files can run off ext2 true; BeOS R3 ran on x86, BeOS also ran on 603 PPC machines, and the BeBox as sold to general public was PowerPC not AT&T Hobbit. Now, want to arrange for that shooting to be of you, then? --85.134.154.44 19:23, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Page has been corrected with the single point the anonymous user was correct on. --85.134.154.44 19:26, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

This page is indeed *really* wrong. BootManager is a simple MBR "chainloader" to chainload MBR bootsectors from other partitions.

As an example, this article links this assembly: https://archive.vn/20130414212741/http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/apps/bootmanager/bootman.S

"%define TITLE							'Haiku Boot Manager'"

The screenshot provided is of Haiku's actual bootloader (notice it says Haiku Boot Loader, not "Haiku Boot Manager").


 * Haiku's BootManager will likely die off at some point since it's MBR/BIOS only (and isn't EFI aware), and is x86 only.
 * Haiku's "Boot Loader" (https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/system/boot) starts on BIOS/EFI/U-BOOT/M68k, etc, and is the actively developed codebase