[haiku-development] Re: boot issues (both hdd and usb stick) on FX9850 cpu based system
- From: Marcus Jacob <rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:58:50 +0200
>
>On 2008-07-09 at 21:33:26 [+0200], Marcus Jacob <rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> >On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Marcus Jacob <rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> >> Actual installation on the desktop HDD was done by the build system
from
>> an
>> >> Ubuntu install with the install-haiku target.
>> >>
>> >
>> >I might be wrong, but afaik install-haiku is not the correct target to
>> >be using from ubuntu, that one's only meant for installing Haiku to a
>> >BFS partition directly from within BeOS or whatnot. Normally you want
>> >to be using the haiku-image target, with HAIKU_IMAGE_DIR and friends
>> >set appropriately as specified in the sample UserBuildConfig. You may
>> >well have installed a boot sector and nothing else if you used that
>> >target.
>>
>> Well, that might be true, but as I said, I also can't boot from an USB
>> stick,
>> which contained an image created with haiku-image target and copied to the
>> stick using dd as well as the same drive, which is installed in my
notebook
>> and boots fine there, also exhibits the same problem, when connected to
the
>> desktops ide interface using an adapter to plug in a 2.5" hdd using a
>> standard ide cable.
>>
>> Therefore thanks for the hint, will not use the install-haiku target
>> anymore,
>> but still need to figure out why the system doesn't boot at all.
>
>If my memory serves me well, problems with the stage one boot loader not
>being able to load the stage two boot loader have always turned out to be
>installation problems so far. "install-haiku" is indeed the wrong build
>system target (now I understand why you mentioned ext3 in your private
mail).
>"haiku-image" should work well, if you specify the respective device.
>
>Regarding the USB stick, you mentioned dd'ing an image to it. If the stick
>contains a partitioning system you'll still have to run makebootable on it.
>The preferred method to install Haiku on a disk/partition is to use the
build
>system directly, though. The file system won't be restricted to the size of
>the image and the build system should take care of correctly running
>makebootable.
The stick actually contains no partions, the image is dd'ed directly to the
device. However just to be on the safe side, I ran makebootable and tried
again, however same story, blinking cursor in top left corner ...
Any advice on Haiku compatible current hardware? If I try to swap the board
and CPU, what should I go for?
Cheers,
Rossi
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