[openbeos] Re: Booting using an USB pen-drive (almost...).

I think the bios emulation only goes as far as getting the bootloader up and starting the kernel. Then the kernel needs to take over - which it would do using the incomplete USB stack. I think it's an unimplemented feature - but definitely one that is coming :) 

Simon

Yannick Barbel wrote:

Hi there,
Hi recently started toying with Haiku. I successfully downloaded the source and built it.
As I am a bit short of space on my 2 PCs HD, I wouldn't like to create a dedicated Haiku partition, but rather use BIOS IDE disk emulation to boot from a 256mb usb drive.
Soo using dd, I placed the image on my USB drive and tried to boot both machine with them, and I have about the same result with both :
One the Desktop, I see the logo appearing, but then the computer completely freezes.
On the Laptop (Dell Inspiron 9400, Centrino Duo 2.16GHz, 2Go Ram), I also see the logo, then it goes to kdl. 


So here are my questions :
1. - Has anybody tried before to boot from USB using the BIOS drive emulation with any success? If yes how? (couldn't find any information on it). 

2. - Is this caused by an unimpletmented feature or is it a bug?
I have no possibility to collect the kernel dump (modern computers, no serial port), but in case of a bug, I'll try to find what is wrong and copy it by hand so I can pass the information. 


Thanks,


Yannick

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