Moin Axel It is a weird issue, I wonder which bit of the ata subsystem makes it in-compatible? And i dont have the hdd space to do a build, i only have my netbook working right now, very limited hdd space. Thanks for your reply Axel. On 20 May 2010 22:53, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > philip taylor <scraliontis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Any ideas on getting r1a2 booted on an eeepc 900, it halts on boot on > > the > > hdd icon, in safemode as well as normal boot. > > I do believe http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3933 may have something > > to do > > with it, but not sure. > > I am no programmer so cant fix this myself. > > This is indeed the issue you have found already; currently, the only > solution is to replace the ATA subsystem with the old IDE one which > worked fine on that system. > If you can build Haiku for yourself, this is pretty simple (just add a > "HAIKU_ATA_STACK = 0 ;" to your UserBuildProfile), otherwise, I don't > know if someone has a package prepared. > > Bye, > Axel. > > >