[haiku] Re: unable to boot recent image
- From: "Christoph .J Thompson" <cjsthompson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:20:51 +0200
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:01:57 +0000
scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The official Alpha image will be released in a few hours now. Try
> burning that one to CD and booting it. I have 3 PCs I've tried it on
> and it was fine on 2 of them, failing to boot on the third on. That
> third one has a strange video bios issue that causes the video to move
> up and down in certain video modes, one of those is the video mode of
> the boot screen. I see that's it's falling to kdl on the fourth icon
> but i can't read the failure. I'll be giving it another try today and
> try using the boot menu options to see if I can get any further.
> There were a handful of ATA changes made 33054 and the alpha tag at
> 33109, but not all were fixed. There's a few open trac issues
> regarding booting issues, so if you still have issues after you try
> the alpha do a search on trac and find the ticket that most closely
> matches yours and post some specs on your PC, such as the output from
> running lshw in Ubuntu:
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/attachment/ticket/1444/MX7118-lshw.txt
> We have pushed the alpha1 milestone tickets to a new alpha2 milestone,
> so while these haven't all been fixed they are still fairly high on
> the radar. More testing and feedback may help isolate some of these
> issues.
> -scottmc
>
Before I got to read your reply, I couldn't resist and downloaded
haiku-r1a1-rc-r33104-x86gcc2hybrid-iso.zip. Burned that and tried to boot it. I
still get the same "error: unable to find boot partition" in kdl when it gets
to the fourth icon. I tried to disable DMA and tell the boot loader to boot
from the CDROM. But that didn't help.
So I will follow your advice and wait for the official ISO. I think however
that I may have done something stupid when burning the ISO (I burn stuff very
rarely but I don't have problems installing XP, FreeBSD or Slackware). But just
to be sure, should I burn the ISO in TAO mode or SAO mode (these are the
options presented in Xfburn)?
I have some ideas why it might not work with my hardware. But I'll elaborate on
that on the bug tracker when I have tried the official ISO as you suggested.
Thanks for your help,
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