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

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Well, when this USB stack is functional, it will add an interesting "install once, run/test everywhere" feature to Haiku.

I was thinking about creating a small program for Windows that would download the latest built image from the factory and burn it to an external drive. That would give newbies the possibility to test Haiku on their computer just like a LiveCD with the advantage to actually being able to modify files on it.

If the drive is big enough and I manage to get BeFS read/write from Windows, I could even make it to autoconfigure itself...

 

Off course, th program would start with a big disclaimer about the pre-alpha status of Haiku....

 

Yannick


----Message d'origine----
>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:36:04 +0100
>De: Simon Taylor
>A: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sujet: [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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