btw, I also tried to boot from my notebook harddrive with a Haiku installation which boots without any issues on my notebook. same behaviour. also I forgot to mention that the system is equipped with 2 vga boards (ATI Radon HD3870), in case that matters ... @ingo this system also uses the stage1 bootloader with more verbose debug turned on ... marcus >Hi everybody, > >since I currently can't report a bug, I just write to this list. After days >of trying I still didn't get Haiku to boot on the hardware I currently have >available: > >AMD 790FX/SB600 based mainboard >AMD Phenom FX9850 >2GB DDR 800 >160GB SATA HDD > >Trying to boot from the HDD failed completely, but I didn't yet figure out >why. Basically I get a "bad superblock magic' ... > >Since I had no clue I tried to boot from an USB stick, which gives me a >totally different result. The system doesn't print any error message instead >it just displays a blinking cursor in the top left corner of the screen an >hangs, no soft reset possible, no trip to whatsoever. > >I also tried to boot from the USB stick basically disabling anything which >could be disabled in the BIOS including the SATA devices, still the same >result ... > >Any ideas? Running Haiku on this machine in QEMU is slower than running it on >my fucking old PIII-M notebook with just 752MB of ram in VESA mode, as the >intel_extreme driver doesn't like my notebook. Just want to get something >descent working ;-) > >Cheers, >Rossi > > >-- >Marcus Jacob > >mailto:rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://www.webpositive.org/ > >LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusjacob > >