[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8343: Why does Bootman not work and Haiku won't install/boot?
- From: "bonefish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:22:27 -0000
#8343: Why does Bootman not work and Haiku won't install/boot?
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Reporter: Luposian | Owner: bonefish
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Partitioning Systems/Intel | Version: R1/alpha3
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: x86
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Comment (by bonefish):
Replying to [comment:2 Luposian]:
> Ok, let's establish if I'm doing anything wrong...
That's rather hard, since you're very fuzzy about what you're actually
doing.
> Starting from a standard Lubuntu install (which worked perfectly), I
had:
>
> 1) One large partition (Where Lubuntu is installed, I assume)
> 2) One small partition (the SWAP partition)
>
> After booting into the Haiku Live CD (or running the Installer; I assume
either path will allow the same end result, when attempting to Install
Haiku to the HD), what do I do?
That's what I'd like to know. So far you haven't even answered how many
hard disks we're talking about. Is it two where you want to install Haiku
on the second one or only one where you want to overwrite the previous
installation of Lubuntu?
> If following every step, to the letter,
Which steps?
> still results in no bootable Haiku partition being found and the Haiku
boot menu being the only thing I can "get to" after a reboot, then I will
know something else is wrong, beyond my own possible ineptitude, and we'll
take it from there.
There are different ways to install Haiku -- and I don't just mean the
process but the end result. From your initial description I understood you
formatted the complete disk with BFS. That is unusual for an internal hard
disk, but should nevertheless result in a bootable Haiku, unless your BIOS
requires a partitioning system (since you get to Haiku's boot loader,
that's apparently not the case).
The more conventional way is to create a partition (or reuse an existing
one) and install Haiku on it. If an MBR is installed that boots the active
partition, all that needs to be done is mark the partition active. I don't
know what happens, if GRUB was previously installed in the MBR. The safe
way, if you want to wipe the whole disk anyway, would be to initialize the
disk with the intel partitioning system in DriveSetup (this writes a
standard MBR) and create a new partition.
Anyway, the request to attach the syslog from the failed boot and
(afterwards) the syslog from booting from the CD stands in either case.
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