[openbeos] Re: Bootable Test CD

My question... can you run makebootable from it?!?!

I can compile Haiku into an image file from within Ubuntu, transfer
that image with dd to a partition, but cannot boot the SATA drive with
any form of BeOS/Zeta/Haiku to make it bootable to see if Haiku is
even compatible with my hardware outside of a VM.  Would be nice to
have an easy way for those to try it on a partition that resides on a
SATA drive.  And because VMs mount other partitions as SCSI, I haven't
been able to use a VM to make a partition bootable.  (if anyone has
any tips on this, I can't find them on the Haiku site)

If I could boot Haiku on the computers I use most (both have SATA
drives), I might be able to motivate myself into becoming more
involved in the community again.  ;)

My 2 cents.

DJ

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Sergio <sergiotocalini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:01 PM, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
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> > > Hi Nicholas,
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> > > 2008/3/27, Nicholas Blachford <nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> > > > How about doing an "early release pre-Alpha test CD" but not
> > > >  advertising it.
> > > >  The people most interested will probably know from this list that
> it's
> > > >  there and can try it out if they want.
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> > > >  I hope to have a new laptop soon and I'd like to try it myself.
> > > >  I've used plenty of Alphas before so I know exactly what it is...
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> > > I like that idea. I actually thought a lot of doing something like
> > > this: I hope to assemble a Haiku alpha 1 testing pool of a group of
> > > 5-10 volunteers that will be testing diverse aspects of alpha 1 on
> > > their machines. Since the priorities at this moment are the booting
> > > from the CD, installing and partitioning (almost in that order), I
> > > hope to be able to intensively test that for 2-3 weeks, while
> > > continually giving feedback to the devs which should in theory make
> > > for a good testing experience.
> > >
> > > Anyway, that's for when some of my other projects wrap up. Unless
> > > someone wants to try to plan that with me.
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> > > N.
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> > Count me in.  Not that I'm not already testing Haiku on whatever systems I
> can get my hands on and reporting bugs as I find them.
> > What might be helpful is to put together a general list of debugging tips,
> such as:
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> > 1) Serial debugging setup
> > 2) using listdev from a terminal on systems that do boot all the way up
> but have one or more devices not working.
> > 3) using lshw from a ubuntu live cd terminal window for those systems that
> don't boot up to get a list of devices.
> > 4) lots more tips....
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> > If you'd like we can use the bedrivers.com forum to discuss this offline,
> I set up a topic for it a few months ago:
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> http://bedrivers.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=52044ab9acce7289a60b117df78ebe4a
> > If anyone has more testing tips feel free to add them there.
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> > -scottmc
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> i can't download image, why? any can help me
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