[haiku] Re: Raw images: what am I doing wrong here?
- From: Cameron Mac Millan <casmacmillan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:01:36 -0500
>> <offtopic>
>> Not even the wireless is supported? Colin G. has made wonderful
>> achievements in that area, so if it's a Mac wifi card it should work
>> as they mostly use Broadcom and Atheros Chips.
Uh... I'm not installing to a Mac. I'm using a Mac to obtain and write
images to USB, but the target device is a WebDT 366
(http://bit.ly/6LqVeB). Networking on it consists of a CardBus Cisco
Aironet 350, and I believe that that card is not currently supported.
>> Images are fun to play with, but for testing or any other *serious*
>> use, compiling is the way to go.
I'm really only interested in testing code from svn, so either nightlies
or spec builds from svn make more sense for me.
>> Well, I'm out of ideas. In the next few days, I'll try and install
>> haiku to a flash drive in a friends iMac (Intel, Dual Core etc... )
>> and i'll post results.
I'd be interested to see what happens, but my gut feeling is that
there's not going to be a whole lot of difference between my findings
and yours.
> He is not getting that far to test any devices in Haiku. He cannot
> boot Haiku from a USB stick but can do so from a CD ROM (AFAIK).
Correct.
> Right now I can only assume there is something lacking in the BIOS
> that is causing the issue. I boot and install Haiku from USB all the
> time although it can sometimes take a bit of effort in some BIOSes to
> configure. As I mentioned in a previous e-mail I have a machine with
> a BIOS that will not recognise a USB stick with less than 512Mb as a
> disk (only as a floppy) so wierd things can trip you up. You just
> have to go through the BIOS settings carefully until you work it out.
I gave the BIOS a reset, since it occurred to me that I couldn't
remember the last time I'd done that - which likely means that I
probably hadn't since I got the device. The BIOS is an AMD XpressROM;
I've got version 1.18 (07/01/2005), which seems to be the most common
recent version for these devices from what I can find.
After the reset, I did some poking around. The Motherboard Device
Configuration | IDE Configuration | Flash Interface item was set to
disabled, so I enabled it; the BIOS describes this setting as,
"Enable/Disable Flash over IDE pins interface." My assumption is that
this emulates an IDE disk over USB, effectively.
With the option enabled, I was able to boot a USB flash disk containing
a raw image as far as the boot loader. The boot loader, however,
couldn't see a partition to boot. I did play around with combinations
of writing to the raw disk, writing to a specific partition,
makebootable, etc., but with no luck. It just doesn't see a bootable
partition on the flash drive - that is to say, no partitions are listed
in the bootloader, and rescan doesn't find any either.
> As Ingo has specified above as well, there are 2 possible does not boot
> issues.
>
> 1. Haiku boot loader "Failed to load OS. Press any key to reboot..."
> 2. BIOS boot loader "no disk" or other error.
>
> We don't yet know which it is.
Apologies for that; I wasn't as clear as I could have been. It's the
BIOS "no disk" error.
> I might also ask, what support can he get from the hardware manufacturer?
Virtually nil. DT Research (manufacturer of the WebDT 366) is not
inclined to support the hobbyist market.
Cheers,
- Cameron.
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