[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku Nightly Image fails on Acer Aspire Timeline 1810 TZ
- From: "beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:49:31 +0100 (CET)
Hi Adrien,
how do I create a partition table? As for the USB-CD, I do not need it to work
if Haiku boots successfully from the USB stick. I just want to install Haiku, no
matter how :-)
Greetings,
Finn
PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> hat am 16. Februar 2010 um 23:41 geschrieben:
> > Booting from that device didn't work, the output was something like
> > "Partiton
> > table not found" (including the spelling error).
>
> This is because the bios on this machine is trying to be too smart :
> instead of just running the MBR of the usb drive (which is a small program
> on the first sector), it looks for a partition table and select the active
> partition. When you run a standard setup this is ok and the boot is
> slightly faster, but an usb drive made bootable this way don't have a
> partition table. An alternative is to create a partition table and then dd
> the raw image to a partition. But then, you have to run the makebootable
> tool to make the drive actually bootable.
>
> As for usb-cd drives, I'm not sure thatès supported yet...
>
> Good luck anyway,
>
> --
> Adrien Destugues / PulkoMandy
> http://pulkomandy.ath.cx
>
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