Bootman: Partition Table not Compatible

Forum thread started by Cytor on Sun, 2009-10-25 13:40

Hi!

First, the livecd runs fine here. Installer also runs fine and... installs.

But when I attempt to run bootman, I get the following message: http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3835/screenshot1rz.png

Partitioning works fine, tough. I created a BFS partition on the first hard drive (/dev/disk/scsi/0/0/0/raw) and set it active. Then, the installer did its thing and completed without error.
Is this because I have two hard drives in here? Or maybe because they are on an AHCI controller (ICH8-M)? Altough the drives are recognized just fine in DriveSetup. I also booted off an Linux livecd and ran parted to create MBR partition tables for both hard drives.

All this worked fine on an older Dell laptop (no SATA/AHCI, one IDE drive).

My system is an Acer Aspire 7720G (Core2Duo, ICH8 Chipset, InsydeH2O-BIOS, 2 HDDs).

Is there a way to work around that? I really want to try Haiku on this system, too :)

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Re: Bootman: Partition Table not Compatible

by tonestone57 - 2009-10-25 15:00

bootman installs to first drive MBR. It can only boot OS off the drive it is installed to. It seems that you installed Haiku to first drive so that shouldn't be an issue.

Some partition software lays out the partition table in an unsupported way - ie: parted created an incompatible partition map. That's why you're getting that error. Usually re-partitioning the drive with the right program will fix it. Try a couple of different partition tools to see which one will do it. For instance, I had an issue with my partition layout and used Partition Magic to fix it but afterwords partition one, BeOS, became un-bootable. Delete entire partition map on the drive