I want to give Haiku a whirl, but the boot manager information is confusing.
I use a boot manager (BING from Terabytes Unlimited. I do not want Haiku to write to the MBR. If the boot manager is necessary to boot Haiku, I want it in the Haiku partition - this is what I do with all Linux distros I try. It does not look as if this is possible from the install guide.
If the boot manager is not needed (i.e. I can use my own) the installation instructions do not seem to make it clear that I have an option not to install it. The BSD distros do not need their boot manager IIRC (only played with a few).
As you can see, I’m a bit confused as to how to proceed.
if you can add the Haiku partition to your boot manager do so,unlike linux wich needs LILO or GRUB to boot, Haiku is not boot manager dependant, thus can be booted with any boot manager if you can actualy add the haiku partition to it.
When I install Haiku I do not install the boot manager. I use Grub to boot Haiku. Haiku’s boot manager is not needed to boot Haiku if you have another one installed you can use that.
Haiku will not install boot manager unless you tell it to.
If you do install Haiku’s boot manager, it’ll go to MBR not partition.