[haiku-development] Re: Haiku R1/alpha decisions

'Additionally it contains the partition offset needed to access this partition during boot. A wrong value for that offset is probably one of the most common reason why a Haiku installation doesn't start to boot.'
hence the troubles im having with getting haiku, even emu'd with a native hard disk to boot.the offset is wrongly calculated.but correctly calculated on an emu hard drive.go figure? 
any way to fix this?

Michael Lotz wrote:

Hi Richard
only issue with that is it doesnt boot.thus the need for grub loader.
I think you are missing some bits and pieces here. Haiku can very well be booted on real hardware since a long time. I have it seen running on many machines, rest assured, and configured booted through various means (BeOS bootman, GRUB, directly from the partition boot code). It also boots fine from USB sticks. In fact I have written an article about this topic this very day to explain parts involved and what is compatible with what. You can find it at http://www.haiku-os.org/documents/user/how_to_get_haiku_booted. Hope this helps. 

Regards
Michael

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