>> <offtopic> >> Not even the wireless is supported? Colin G. has made wonderful >> achievements in that area, so if it's a Mac wifi card it should work >> as they mostly use Broadcom and Atheros Chips. Uh... I'm not installing to a Mac. I'm using a Mac to obtain and write images to USB, but the target device is a WebDT 366 (http://bit.ly/6LqVeB). Networking on it consists of a CardBus Cisco Aironet 350, and I believe that that card is not currently supported. >> Images are fun to play with, but for testing or any other *serious* >> use, compiling is the way to go. I'm really only interested in testing code from svn, so either nightlies or spec builds from svn make more sense for me. >> Well, I'm out of ideas. In the next few days, I'll try and install >> haiku to a flash drive in a friends iMac (Intel, Dual Core etc... ) >> and i'll post results. I'd be interested to see what happens, but my gut feeling is that there's not going to be a whole lot of difference between my findings and yours. > He is not getting that far to test any devices in Haiku. He cannot > boot Haiku from a USB stick but can do so from a CD ROM (AFAIK). Correct. > Right now I can only assume there is something lacking in the BIOS > that is causing the issue. I boot and install Haiku from USB all the > time although it can sometimes take a bit of effort in some BIOSes to > configure. As I mentioned in a previous e-mail I have a machine with > a BIOS that will not recognise a USB stick with less than 512Mb as a > disk (only as a floppy) so wierd things can trip you up. You just > have to go through the BIOS settings carefully until you work it out. I gave the BIOS a reset, since it occurred to me that I couldn't remember the last time I'd done that - which likely means that I probably hadn't since I got the device. The BIOS is an AMD XpressROM; I've got version 1.18 (07/01/2005), which seems to be the most common recent version for these devices from what I can find. After the reset, I did some poking around. The Motherboard Device Configuration | IDE Configuration | Flash Interface item was set to disabled, so I enabled it; the BIOS describes this setting as, "Enable/Disable Flash over IDE pins interface." My assumption is that this emulates an IDE disk over USB, effectively. With the option enabled, I was able to boot a USB flash disk containing a raw image as far as the boot loader. The boot loader, however, couldn't see a partition to boot. I did play around with combinations of writing to the raw disk, writing to a specific partition, makebootable, etc., but with no luck. It just doesn't see a bootable partition on the flash drive - that is to say, no partitions are listed in the bootloader, and rescan doesn't find any either. > As Ingo has specified above as well, there are 2 possible does not boot > issues. > > 1. Haiku boot loader "Failed to load OS. Press any key to reboot..." > 2. BIOS boot loader "no disk" or other error. > > We don't yet know which it is. Apologies for that; I wasn't as clear as I could have been. It's the BIOS "no disk" error. > I might also ask, what support can he get from the hardware manufacturer? Virtually nil. DT Research (manufacturer of the WebDT 366) is not inclined to support the hobbyist market. Cheers, - Cameron.