[haiku-development] Re: Asus Eee PC B202

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 22:05:20 -0800

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:18 PM, David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/2/7 David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> 2009/2/6 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I seem to have accidently on purpose bought myself a Eee PC B202.
>>>> Were the Network Driver issues sorted out?
>>>
>>> Not sure what driver is used by that model. The ones used in the Eee PC
>>> 700 and 900 are working fine AFAICT.
>>
>> Well I didn't even get that far.  I cannot get it to boot from a USB
>> key.  I can set USB as the first priority in the BIOS and then I can
>> select F8 to display a list of devices and choose the USB drive and
>> then it boots windows :-(
>
> Well I can boot a USB drive that contains FAT16 but NOT a USB drive
> containing Haiku OS.
>
> Hmm, I have dd'ed an image to a partition on the disk.  Does anyone
> know a way to makebootable a partition from Windows?

Not from windows, but I did stumble across this useful little Linux proggy:

http://stefanschramm.net/dev/makebootabletiny/makebootabletiny.c

Maybe you can compile it and run it from a ram disk while using a Linux livecd?

- Urias

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