[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #6324: Haiku boot image fails with 512 MB RAM
- From: "bonefish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:50:28 -0000
#6324: Haiku boot image fails with 512 MB RAM
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Reporter: Karvjorm | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: System/Boot Loader | Version: R1/alpha2
Resolution: | Keywords: Boot image 512 MB RAM
Blocked By: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All | Blocking:
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Comment (by bonefish):
Replying to [comment:6 Karvjorm]:
> Replying to [comment:5 bonefish]:
> > The picture you attached is nothing the boot loader produces AFAIK. It
may come from the monitor (some kind of out-of-sync picture?), the
graphics card may show it when switching the video mode (sounds unlikely),
or the BIOS draws it before calling the boot loader.
> >
> Originally this is a Windows 98 computer and no problem to boot Win98
installation CD-ROM, I suppose. And no problem with Kubuntu 10.4
installation CD-ROM either. What is different with Haiku? I wonder if I
could find some third installation CD-ROM for testing?
It's not so interesting which OSs work. Apparently Haiku does something
wrong or doesn't have a work-around for some hardware quirk that the
others have.
> > A syslog might be helpful, though I suspect it's too early to get one
(can you enter the boot loader menu?). If this box has a serial port and
you have another box with one and a null modem cable, please fetch the
serial debug output.
>
> I have not null modem cable just now, but I have a USB 2.0 Data Transfer
Cable between boxes just now. But I even do not know how to use it in
other end (is it really working in Kubuntu and how I can test it?).
USB is not helpful in this case. Boot loader and kernel write their debug
output to the serial line. Using a USB-serial adapter, should you have
one, on the other computer would be an option, but on the box you boot the
serial port must be used. Fetching the output is as easy as starting your
terminal program of choice and configuring the serial port to 115200 8N1
without flow control.
> Both boxes include floppy drive (1.44 MB) and it would be fine, if I had
a boot image that would install floppy as a first step and save syslog and
serial debug output to floppy.
It should be possible to create a boot floppy image with `jam -q haiku-
boot-floppy.image`. You can `dd` it to a floppy disk. It's not a complete
Haiku, but it should get you into the boot loader.
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