This is a weird one, but is there any way we might generate a version of the nightly with failsafe graphics turned on by default? There have been a few situations I’ve had trying to install Haiku where it would have booted fine, but the graphics driver is not supported and getting to the boot menu is not possible because the the keyboard on the device is not seemingly supported till later in the boot process. There doesn’t seem to be any way to get at the BFS partition from Haiku (never managed to get the image to mount) and writing it to USB then ripping is back to an image seems like overkill. Am I missing an easier way?
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Can you write to USb, mount the usb disk and edit the boot settings ? Thus creating a “personalized” usb installer ?
A lot of Mac hardware, especially pre 2012, will not boot from USB happily. Especially if rEFIt is needed.
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It should be doable using the “diskimage register” command (that allows handling the partition table and making the partitions appear in the mount menu).
Otherwise, you can use the UserBuildConfig file and set up a custom kernel configuration file, but that seems like even more work.
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Not a weird idea at all. Besides Macs, I’ve had situations with VMs where you can’t get to the boot menu for love or money. IIRC it worked in VirtualBox but not in UTM.
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Yeah that’d be ace!
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