Greetings!
I believe that UEFI booting instructions could be improved. I would make a pull request myself, however I don’t believe I have enough knowledge in regards to the matter to make clear recommendations with reasoning. Still, I have following proposals for article expansion:
-
Partition Layout part (and this article in general) assumes that user installs Haiku on the empty hard drive and that it will be the only Haiku installed and loaded. However, people usually already have a ESP partition installed on their system. I believe that this need to be clarified, as beginners may create additional EFI partition or erase existing ones.
-
Same problem goes for the EFI bootloader installation guides below. I don’t believe it’s suitable to install Haiku bootloader in the
EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi
location as it is, if I understand correctly, default location for the UEFI to try and find some application if none are preferred in settings. I believe it would be suitable to recommend creating other directory, for exampleHaiku
. This way, no other system can overwrite this file and there won’t be a confusion in regards to “how do I boot in my other systems”. Of course, there may be a confusion about “how do I boot into Haiku now”, but it is much simpler to clarify, in my opinion. -
This is more of a question rather than a idea for article improvement, but I’m curious about how Haiku bootloader will know or can be configured to know about where main system partition is, especially considering that one may install Haiku alongside other systems.
I believe this post will create an interesting discussion and result in improvement in documentation. Thanks in advance for clarifications and explanations and/or other ideas.