[openbeos] boot0, mixed results
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:05:22 +0200 CEST
Good news/bad news:
I've successfully booted BeOS from the boot0 MBR.
(Incidentally, on a 256 MB Compact Flash card on an IDE adapter.)
However, when installed on my main box, with a real harddisk of 120 GB,
it fails. The menu is there, but it just beeps when I press a key, and
nothing happens. (In 'boot0.S': " * User's last try was bad, beep in
displeasure." Anybody fluent in assembly?) The HD size shouldn't be a
problem. My BSD box has a 200 GB harddisk, and it works great, so
perhaps I'm missing some option. I think I tried the "packet" option
though, which is necessary for large disks. This hardware is a little
odd, BTW. Bootman complains, but only when booted off a CD, about not
being able to get the BIOS drive number of the /boot volume. Maybe
that's it.
http://www.kirilla.com/tmp/bootman5.zip
Put the 'boot0' MBR file in /boot/, and spell out the full dev path:
> boot0cfg -B /dev/disk/ide/ata/0/master/0/raw
(-Bv toggles verbosity on, which is probably a good idea.)
And keep a BeOS CD handy to reinstall bootman,
should you get locked out. Backing up your files might
also be a good idea.
/Jonas Sundström. www.kirilla.com
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