[haiku-development] Re: native boot

2008/7/16 Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>:
>
> richard jasmin wrote:
>> yes, i do mean [jammed src's] . unfortunately its the only way right
>> now.dd'ing the image just doesn't produce a bootable drive.
>
> You *can* dd an image to a partition, but you need to run Haiku's version
> of makebootable on it. Among other things, the partition offset is written
> to it at a magic offset. Without running (Haiku's) makebootable, dd'd
> images can simply not work.
>
>> i think kernel_intel is a part of ZETA last i looked at it when it was
>> running.i was trying to find the boot kernel, you know the one like
>> vmlinuz on *NIX that boots from lilo or grub. found it along with a bunch
>> of other scripts.I swear kernel_intel was in there.
>
> But Haiku has kernel_x86, not kernel_intel. Anyways, you need a Haiku
> zbeos, the BeOS/ZETA scripts will obviously use a BeOS/ZETA zbeos, which
> cannot work.
>
>> is the ZETA bootloader any different from r5, then?
>
> The point is that Haiku's bootloader is different. Neither the BeOS nor
> ZETA zbeos can boot Haiku. If you mean bootman (the boot menu) both the
> BeOS and ZETA versions can be used to boot Haiku. Makebootable is something
> separate from that and absolutely needs to be performed.
>
> If you want to save yourself a lot of trouble, please just install a Linux
> and follow the build instructions on our site to create your on Haiku
> bootable partitions. This is the best way to follow progress and currently
> we don't really support other ways of installing Haiku very well.
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
>
>

If you just partition flash disk to have haiku at the start, then you
shouldn't need to run makebootable.

Euan

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