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From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>, Peter <sunspark@gmail.com>,
	56582@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56582: Installer does not detect or allow detection of other bootable partitions
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 12:31:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E903228D-E2CF-4682-86D7-B415E165F6BA@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877d4dz8ce.fsf@jpoiret.xyz>

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If anything, you also need to chainload to boot on haiku, which is free software. So no reason not to implement it.

Le 16 juillet 2022 11:59:29 GMT+02:00, Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> a écrit :
>Hello both of you,
>
>Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>> Of course this is only a workaround I'm proposing, we should fix the installer to detect other OSs.
>Just adding that we don't have any Guix bootloader entry field to
>chainload into another bootloader, needed for some non-free system :)
>this would need to be added as well.
>
>I personally don't mind, and use my UEFI boot menu instead if I want to
>boot into said non-free OS.
>
>Best,
>-- 
>Josselin Poiret

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-16 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-15 20:10 bug#56582: Installer does not detect or allow detection of other bootable partitions Peter
2022-07-16  5:46 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16  9:59   ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-07-16 10:31     ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2022-07-16 20:44       ` Peter
2022-07-21 16:01         ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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