[haiku-development] Re: booting from partition on flash drive
- From: Alan Searchwell <bigduppy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:28:16 +0000
Patrick,
I'm affraid I'm not a developer myself although as a hobbyist I used to mess
around with MS Basic and a little bit of assembly years ago.
> Odd, have you tried the Live-CD?
No, I,m assuming that will work, I'm more interested in understanding how the
boot process works with flash drives.
> With Haiku in Alpha it might be too late to ask for that.
Actually no, this is not really a part of haiku but a tool for making a haiku
partition bootable and the source is available. It's just not available as a
binary for non programmers like me. I guess I'll just have to try a little
compiling.
> Your approach should be fine, only one way to find out.
Like I said, time to try some compiling.
Jonas,
> I'm not sure it's what you ask for, but we have a utility
> (in Haiku) called "bootman" which installs a simple boot menu
> on the MBR, allowing booting from any of the primary partitions
> of one's primary disk
I guess once I try some compiling, I can look at porting bootman to
Linux/Windows.
Richie,
Interesting app. Since I use linux on my laptop, dd works just fine and is
pretty straightforward.
Adrien,
> There is makebootabletiny.c under linux to make a partition bootable,
> too. So you shouldn't have to do it by hand, usually. Just compile the
> small c program and run it.
Tried makebootabletiny.c. Compiled in a few seconds. Failed to mount
partition as user. Ran fine with sudo. That wasn't hard at all!
> Anyway, BIOS looking for a partition table is wrong. You should report
> it to the motherboard manufacturer :)
Just guessing about the BIOS scanning partition table. I could be completely
wrong. As a matter of fact it seems there IS a problem a problem with the BIOS
on this mb.
I did the whole process on another 4GB flash drive and the whole thing went a
lot quicker the second time around. Makebootabletiny made a huge difference,
being able to correct the data directly. Maybe i should write a little howto?
Alan
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