From: snuhwolf@netscape.net
Andreas Kohlbach pinched out a steaming pile
of<87my4qpibf.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>:
>§ñühw¤£f wrote on 19. September 2009:
>>
>> Andreas Kohlbach pinched out a steaming pile
>> of<87ws3vhhrb.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>:
>>
>>>§ñühw¤£f wrote on 18. September 2009:
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>>>> Andreas Kohlbach pinched out a steaming pile
>>>> of<873a6lp181.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>:
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>>>>> Cool would be to boot this image via grub. But as far as I check
>>>> Google
>>>>> results you can't,
>>>>
>>>> Theres install instructions on the haiku site for using grub to
boot
>> it
>>>> from its own partition.
>>>>
>>>> need to install it into a blank partition (or USB
>>>>> stick, may be another thing I'm going to try).
>>>>
>>>> Give it its own partition...they say it needs 600MB to install so
a
>> 2gb
>>>> partition should be sufficient.
>>>
>>>I did copy it an a 4 GB USB stick. But hardware (probably computer
>> BIOS)
>>>doesn't like me.
>>
>> You might check to see if there is BIOS upgrade.
>
>I checked, there is not. The Notebook is fairly new anyway, so it
might
>be buggy and there might be one out soon.
>
After reading some long discussions on the Haiku forum it seems that
theres an issue with newer hard disks and the capabilities of Haiku to
utilise that higher speed.
The workaround seems to be "disable DMA" in the boot options.
Suggestions included "select all safe mode boot options and then enable
them one by one till you find the one that is the issue".
>> I assume you can set BIOS "USB Drive" as a bootable volume choice.
>>
>> If not; there is your problem :)
>
>Yes, I can set this up. And it actually boots from the USB stick. I
could
>see the Haiku splash screen before I entered "userland".
>
Its probably a boot option tweak.
Ive had to "disable DMA" on more than one computer trying to install
BeOS.
On one I had to limit the AGP memory size in the BIOS before it would
boot. Weird.
>> As already before for Linux on an USB stick it boots
>>>from it (I see the Haiku splash screen) but for some reason it (also
>>>Linux before) tries to continue booting from a hard disk partition
>> after
>>>that.
>>
>> I assume you are not willing to remove HDD in order to prevent that.
>
>Not really. But I might take the USB stick to an internet cafe where
>there is usually no Linux or ext2/3 partitions installed to see what
>happens there.
>
Good idea.
>> Both OS report not to be able to find or mount a boot partition,
>>>instead of considering the USB stick as device to run from.
>>>
>>>I also added an entry for grub and it was able to boot off the USB
>>>stick. But then the same happened and I was thrown back to Haiku's
>>>userland console.
>>>
>>
>> While booting the USB stick did you hold down spacebar and try
>> different options?
>
>Not yet. When I boot next time I'll try this. I forgot what key it
was,
>tried ESC, F12 etc. but not the space bar. *g*
>
Theres some other usefull key-combinations I used to know for BeOS but
have forgotten. Think they're listed in the BeOS book.
>>>I think it's something else. May be a problem with the emu. As it
>>>consumes all CPU cycles in the emu. What also would explain that
>> Haiku's
>>>clock starts running like crazy.
>>
>> Sounds reasonable.
>> My laptop has odd issue with suddenly dropping ethernet (wired)
>> connection. It often dosent appear to be on at all. Tried it across
>> different OS's too.
>> :(
>
>I had this on an older notebook too along with some "watch dog" log
>entries. I don't know what it was but removing and reloading the
ethernet
>card's driver helped.
This seems to be a BIOS issue. It looks for a wireless connection
*first* then tries the ethernet port. The fan is dead too, but thats
another story :)
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