[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku Nightly Image fails on Acer Aspire Timeline 1810 TZ
- From: Fredrik Modèen <fredrik@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:59:20 +0100 (CET)
> Hi Alexandre,
>
>
> Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> hat am 17. Februar 2010 um 13:05
> geschrieben:
>
>> There's no simple guide or tool (yet), you'd have to do it manually. To
>> create a partition, use any partition editor like gparted or equivalent,
>> create a partition on the usb disk (you might need to delete what was
>> previously on the disk), type shouldn't matter, no need to format.
>> Then
>> the important thing is that you must _not_ write the image on the whole
>> disk (like told in the guides) but on a partition of it.
>> E.g:
>> dd if=haiku.image of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M
>>
>> where 'sdb' is the whole usb disk and 'sdb1' the first partition.
>>
>> Then you'd have to use one of the methods here to make it bootable:
>> http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmlr/2009-02-08/makebootable_what_and_why_and_how_do_it_manually
>
> I will try that (probably on Friday) and will report when I was successful
> (or
> ask again if I wasn't).
>
>
>> > All that could be done automatically by program in theory, if someone
>> is
>> motivated :)
>>
>
> Wouldn't that be a fine addition to "Haiku on a Stick"? :-)
Now you got my attention :) what addition?
If you use windows all you need are Haiku on a Stick if nothing have
changes :) but I did have a lot of problem with some USB sticks but that
was same even if I made the stick from scratch building from Haiku.
>
>
>> > ps: under haiku, one should be able to simply use Installer to an usb
>> stick partition.
>
> Hm, I could try to do that from Haiku/vmWare. Hopefully I can access the
> stick
> from there.
>
> Thanks,
> Finn
--
MVH
Fredrik Modèen
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