[haiku] Re: r1a2 on an eeepc 900

  • From: philip taylor <scraliontis@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 23:05:06 +0100

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.
>
>
>

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