[haiku-development] Re: Haiku EFI installation does not boot
- From: Linuxero <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "mageia" for DMARC)
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:52:54 +0100
El 27/1/21 a las 17:33, Adrien Destugues escribió:
Hi,
The boot process is as follows:
- The EFI firmware (the BIOS in your computer) looks for an EFI system
partition (FAT32 formatted)
- It mounts that partition and looks for a file named BOOTX64.EFI in a specific
location
- It loads and runs the file
- The file is the haiku bootloader
- The bootloader asks the firmware to enumerate partitions, and finds a BFS
formatted one
- It loads the haiku package from that partition, extracts the kernel from it,
and starts it
You can find BOOTX64.EFI in your USB drive. you may need to manually mount the
system partition
(right click on desktop -> mount) if not done automatically
I guess I solved it. The problem is that, according to my findings,
Haiku boot loader identifies the partition based on the file system
flag, which in this case should be 0xEB00.
This leads me to the conclusion, that Haiku has a bug during disk
partitioning or disk set up.
I had partitioned the disk using gparted under Linux. The Haiku
partition was initially created as FAT32 and gparted sets the file
system flag as 0x0700.
When I booted Haiku USB and prepared the partition as BeOS FS,
apparently Haiku did not set the file system indicator to 0xEB00. Thus
the boot loader cannot find the partition, because it cannot find an
EB00 one.
Now I used gdisk to set the file system flag to EB00 and I will try to
boot. I will update if it does not work.
You need to set up the EFI system partition and copy the bootloader there at
the correct place.
Currently our Installer does not know how to do this on its own. We plan to fix
this, but for
now, EFI setup is a manual process
It is not clear what you get (you say only "a sort of menu") and what the
problem is (you only say
"I cannot use it"). Do you get the haiku bootloader menu? (this one clearly says
"Welcome to the Haiku
bootloader" at the top so it should be easy to identify) or do you get some
other menu from your BIOS?
Yes, it is the Haiku Bootloader Menu.
Do the keyboard work or not at all? Is the "select boot volume" option
available and are there any
volumes listed in there?
I cannot use the keyboard and there are no volumes to choose from. Only
boot Haiku, then an entry about screen resolution, another about safe
mode, and a fourth that I happen to forget now.
Thank you for your reply.
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