[openbeos] Re: Installing to a partition from linux

Fredrik Ekdahl <fekdahl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 17 August 2007 10.34.05 Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > Fredrik, can you check if the BFS partition header looks correct? 
> > It
> > should have a 0x55aa at position 510, and the 4 bytes immediately
> > before that (starting with offset 506) should contain the absolute
> > partition offset in 512 byte blocks.
> Yes, it does look correct. And the offset is the same as reported by 
> Parted.

Okay, so it can't be that :-)

> On Thursday 16 August 2007 12.43.51 Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > Have you tried to let Qemu boot from your native device and see if 
> > that
> > gives you a different output?
> I just tried running:
> sudo qemu -hda /dev/sda6 -m 256
> and the output was "Failed to load OS. Press any key to reboot..._"

That has to happen when you're using sda6 (instead of sda) - unless you 
set the partition offset back to zero manually, of course.

> Is there anything else I can try?

I don't know, although I would suspect a problem with GRUB here; if the 
boot block looks okay, there is no reason it should give you that 
error.

Bye,
   Axel.

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