[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku Nightly Image fails on Acer Aspire Timeline 1810 TZ
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:45:48 -0800
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:41 PM, PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Booting from that device didn't work, the output was something like
>> "Partiton
>> table not found" (including the spelling error).
>
> This is because the bios on this machine is trying to be too smart : instead
> of just running the MBR of the usb drive (which is a small program on the
> first sector), it looks for a partition table and select the active
> partition. When you run a standard setup this is ok and the boot is slightly
> faster, but an usb drive made bootable this way don't have a partition
> table. An alternative is to create a partition table and then dd the raw
> image to a partition. But then, you have to run the makebootable tool to
> make the drive actually bootable.
Indeed, I run into many BIOS that seem to fall into this category more
and more these days.
> As for usb-cd drives, I'm not sure thatès supported yet...
This does work, although it may be device-dependent. I can boot my
Acer Aspire One from a Haiku CD using an external USB Memorex DVD-RW
drive just fine :)
- Urias
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