[openbeos] boot0, mixed results

["Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good news/bad news:

I've successfully booted BeOS from the boot0 MBR. 
(Incidentally, on a 256 MB Compact Flash card on an IDE adapter.)

However, when installed on my main box, with a real harddisk of 120 GB, 
it fails. The menu is there, but it just beeps when I press a key, and 
nothing happens. (In 'boot0.S': " * User's last try was bad, beep in 
displeasure." Anybody fluent in assembly?) The HD size shouldn't be a 
problem. My BSD box has a 200 GB harddisk, and it works great, so 
perhaps I'm missing some option. I think I tried the "packet" option 
though, which is necessary for large disks. This hardware is a little 
odd, BTW. Bootman complains, but only when booted off a CD, about not 
being able to get the BIOS drive number of the /boot volume. Maybe 
that's it.

http://www.kirilla.com/tmp/bootman5.zip

Put the 'boot0' MBR file in /boot/, and spell out the full dev path:

> boot0cfg -B /dev/disk/ide/ata/0/master/0/raw

(-Bv toggles verbosity on, which is probably a good idea.)

And keep a BeOS CD handy to reinstall bootman,
should you get locked out. Backing up your files might
also be a good idea.

/Jonas Sundström.                      www.kirilla.com

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