[haiku-development] Re: Haiku booting problems
- From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:29:17 +1100
On 5 February 2010 09:18, PHilip RUshik <prushik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everyone
> I built a Haiku CD image today from the SVN and installed it on my laptop.
> The CD image was built from the SVN, but I created a custom jam target
> called @all-cd which basically just includes more optional packages than
> usual. Its a GCC4 hybrid build, thats what I always do, I think that makes
> the most sense, newest compiler without breaking compatibility. It built
> correctly and created a CD image. I burned the image to a CD. All went well.
> I inserted the CD and booted from it. It booted correctly. I clicked
> desktop, the desktop loaded, I made sure everything was working, it was. I
> rebooted (I don't trust the icon on the desktop that says "Installer") and
> booted from the CD, and then clicked installer on the prompt. I installed
> over top of my previous Haiku partition. I rebooted into it and:
> The beautiful Haiku bootloader splash screen never showed up. Instead there
> was a few screenfuls of ugly text, and then a screen of garbage. I tried it
> a few times, reinstalling and trying to boot, always ended up frozen on a
> garbage screen. Sometimes, the garbage looks like its trying to be the Haiku
> desktop, I get the nice Haiku blue background on part of the screen
> sometimes. I then tried a clean install, but got the same results.
>
> I installed from the same CD on my newer laptop and it works great, and all
> the optional software I added is there. My new laptop is 64 bit, old is 32
> (probably doesn't matter). I built Haiku and the CD image on my new laptop.
> I used "cd gcc2; linux32 ../configure --build-cross-tools ../../buildtools/
> --include-3rdparty --include-gpl-addons --include-patented-code" to build
> the gcc2 portion, and I used "cd ../gcc4; ../configure
> --build-cross-tools-gcc4 x86 ../../buildtools/ --include-3rdparty
> --include-gpl-addons --include-patented-code --alternative-gcc-output-dir
> ../gcc2/" to build the gcc4 portion, and finally I compiled with "jam -q
> @all-cd"
> Everything worked until I tried to boot on my old laptop. I know that laptop
> worked before because I was using Haiku before I got my new laptop.
>
> So, did I do something wrong? Did I build incorrectly or something? Could
> this just be bad luck? Is there something wrong with creating your own
> target? Did I add too much optional software?
Can you still boot from the CD?
It may just be an issue of running makebootable after booting off the CD.
You could try to boot of the CD, then hit space bar to get the boot
menu and then select the haiku partition on your machine.
--
Cheers
David
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