[haiku] Re: trouble making raw image bootable

  • From: Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 18:02:03 +0200

2009/5/2 Glenn Holmer <gholmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I've installed Haiku from the raw image a couple of times successfully,
> but this time I followed the same steps and it failed (build 30545).
> This is what I do:
>
> 1) download the raw image and unzip
> 2) from Linux, on the target machine:
>   dd if=haiku-alpha.image of=/dev/sdc2
> 3) boot Zeta on the target machine and verify sdc2 is visible as /Haiku
> 4) from terminal, makebootable /Haiku
>
> I get a message saying: "Cannot find the BIOS drive id
> for: /dev/disk/scsi/1/0/0/0_1", although it also says that it was
> successfully made bootable.
>
> When I boot that partition from GRUB, I get "Error loading OS; press any
> key to reboot."
>
> What have I done wrong?

Since some revisions (when we changed the system paths), Zeta's
makebootable can no longer make a haiku image... bootable.

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