- Google Summer of Code Project: Alternate System Timers
- Anthy Ported to Haiku, Binary Available on Bebits
- Premonitions of a rising sun
- GSoc Swap File Project
- Google Summer of Code Project : Writing a CIFS client
- Google Summer of Code: Zeroconf!
- Git for Haiku (#1)
- A weekend in SF, for LugRadio Live USA 2008
- Haiku Websites Stats and Other Trivia
- Haiku Alpha 1 Status Update (#2)
The return of the son of the demo CD
As everyone knows (or should), every BeOS install CD was actually a live CD (way before Linux "invented" it...). And of course so would be for Haiku.
While it used to work long ago, nobody actually tried to make one for some time, and some fixes were required to make it happen again.
Making an usable CD still requires some work (Bootscript.cd, ramdisk for settings maybe...), but it finally boots again.
One of the problems was a kernel argument that was passed as int32 and checked for as bool, obviously missing the int32 value.
The FloppyBootImage jam file I wrote also lacked the scsi_cd driver in the list of boot modules to be put into the gzipped tarball that goes on the floppy image. Since I used a copy-paste from the NetBootImage file I overlooked this.
It's still a bit early to distribute demo CDs, but just so you know when the time comes, let's see how to make one.
Creating a bootable CD requires burning 2 tracks on a single CD.
The first track is an El-Torito bootable ISO-9660 file-system containing a boot floppy image, and is created with:
jam -q haiku-boot-cd
This generates an image file named 'haiku-boot-cd.iso' in your output directory under 'generated/'.
The second track is the raw BFS image 'haiku.image' in 'generated/' created with:
jam -q haiku-image
Under Unix/Linux, and BeOS you can use cdrecord to create a CD with:
cdrecord dev=x,y,z -v -eject -dao -data generated/haiku-boot-cd.iso generated/haiku.image
Where x,y,z is the device number of your cd burner (get it with cdrecord -scanbus).
Windows users might have a look at the .cue files around used for BeOS distros, they should work as well for Haiku.
Created a CDRW today, burned it with Nero and a CUE (just like I do with other beos-related CDs)..
Works on real hardware!
Definitely need to investigate a ramdisk option - not only was booting SLOW (took like 5-10 minutes on a Pentium 4) but get all sorts of issues when software tries to write to disk (ProcessController wouldn't even load into the deskbar).
Would be awesome if all the important stuff could be loaded into the ramdisk first thing to cut down on boot time... the CD drive was thrashing all around during load.
Great work!
Yes the Deskbar API requires (for the 2nd method) to add an attribute to the app, which is both broken for RO media, and bad for multiuser...
Even Pulse was doing bad things (1x1 window :)
I was thinking more of settings for the ramdisk, like I did on the Zeta demo cd (memfs on /etc, ~/config and some other places IIRC)...
That's great news! I'll give it a try for sure :)
Many thanks, mmu_man!
Hey did anyone already say to you how beautiful is your first name? ;D
(I know, old joke :P)
Is BluRay disc supported ? :)
(ok ok ... i get out)
good news except I can't get the darn thing to work lol.
I keep getting the following
rm -f generated/haiku-boot-cd.iso
mkisofs -b haiku-boot-floppy.image -r -J -V bootimg -o generated/haiku-boot-cd.iso generated/haiku-boot-floppy.image data/boot_cd/README.html...failed BuildCDBootImage1 generated/haiku-boot-cd.iso ...
...failed updating 1 target(s)...
...updated 42 target(s)...
Did I completely spaz on something? What should I do?
Of course you have mkisofs installed, don't you ?
and spaz it is!
"Someone needs to hold my hand because my nick isn't always accurate"
Hi! So, any progress? :)
Could someone please put an image somewhere? Then I could make some tests too.
Thanx!
Yeah, a bootable image would be much appreciated.
Why isn't there a floppy boot image available? I nuked my Zeta partition with dd if=haiku.image of=/dev/disk/hd3 or something like that. As far as I could tell it worked fine except that it was not the 10GB partition size I had Zeta on and it wouldn't boot. It would sure be nice if trying Haiku wasn't such a pain in the.... With a LiveCD I could boot from the CD and just copy stuff to a working BeOS/Zeta partition (I think). I tried booting from Zeta 1.21 and mounting the haiku.image but I get nothing but mount errors no matter what I try.
Strange, cause it's exactly what i do: mounting the Haiku image disk on Zeta and copy paste the files on a BFS partition.
But can you boot from the Zeta CD and do it with only one BeOS partition on the drive? I get mount errors.
I don't think so, the Desktop is a read-only inthis case so probably no way to mount something on it...
volumes are mounted on the root filesystem (/), not /boot so it doesn't matter. Them appearing on the Desktop is just done by Tracker.
Nice