[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku Nightly Image fails on Acer Aspire Timeline 1810 TZ
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:26:45 +0100
On 2010-02-17 at 14:11:55 [+0100], PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> More and more BIOs are looking for a partition table on usb sticks
> >> instead
> >> of just reading the MBR. So, it would be nice if Haiku On a Stick
> >> allowed
> >> to set such an MBR+partition on the disk as an option.
> > Think that would be harder, Haiku On a Stick only takes a raw image and
> > writes it on the disk with Flashnul, its' also written in C# so no low
> > level access
>
> It's actually just a matter of prependig some bytes to the image and
> changing some offsets as makebootable do. You can do it all before running
> flashnul.
To be precise, those bytes would be an MBR (boot code and partition table)
and possibly some padding.
I guess the best option is to extend the build system to optionally create
images containing a partition table.
CU, Ingo
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