[openbeos] Re: Haiku raw images
- From: "Kevin Field" <kev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:59:57 -0400 EDT
Thanks, yeah, I guess I'm not the only one then. I've seen other posts around
the net about this too.
I popped in the Max CD so I could repartition my drive (leaving my main boot
partition intact)--I took my second partition and split it roughly into thirds,
and put the one I'd try Haiku on in the middle. Didn't work. Tried
reformatting it as FAT, mounting, unmounting, reformatting as BFS/2048 (had
been 1024 before), still no good, same thing.
Any other ideas? I saw there was a patch at the end of last year that
should've fixed it...but my problems actually started some time after that.
Kev
> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 21:32:00 -0700
> From: "Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V6 #58
>
> > What happens on bootup is that the Haiku bootloader comes up fine, but it
> > can't ever find any bootable partitions, and retrying doesn't > help. I'm
> > using bootman's bootloader to get to it.
>
> FWIW, I was having problems with my Haiku HD also... it all started
> after I messed around with bootman and makebootable on my Haiku
> partition. It would boot fine on one machine, but not on another. No
> matter how many times I destroyed and repartitioned with BFS, it kept
> causing problems where Haiku's bootloader wouldn't see it.
>
> I finally corrected the problem by removing all the partitions,
> repartitioning as FAT and initializing, and then re-partitioning as
> BFS again.
>
> I can only assume some chunk of the disk was left in a bad state that
> the Haiku bootloader couldn't cope with... by initializing as FAT, and
> switching it back, it must have cleared it up.
>
> Re-writing the MBR didn't help in my trials either.
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