Haiku won't boot after installing(solved)

Forum thread started by rayyu on Tue, 2012-10-30 10:54

It's strange, after installing haiku successfully, I reboot it and I get "PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE rom"
I've installed it on my other laptop before and this never happened, is there anything wrong?
I installed windows 7 and it booted fine. And then I shrunk that partition and installed haiku.
After installation, it went straight to windows 7. I put the haiku cd back in and reinstalled haiku,
this time taking out windows 7 and using the whole drive. After installing and rebooting, I get
the PXE message. . . I'm confused :C
If it makes any different, I'm using a Lenovo netbook.

edit

I'm using the nightly iso, btw. Is it recommended over the stable?

‹ x86-64 available? Running Bethon ›

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Re: Haiku won't boot after installing. . .

by el.tigre.20 - 2012-10-30 14:46

Firstly:
PXE is a protocol that will enable you to boot from a network drive or server. It is obvious that you don't want to do that, but that you want to boot to a partitioned volume.

essentially your computer trying to boot from a network location.

So: go into the BIOS and verify that the boot sequence has your HDD and CD drive before the PXE Boot.
Maybe worth doing a chkdsk to make sure that the disk isnt damaged (boot to windows 7 or chkdsk with a repair disk)

Hopefully, you've installed Haiku to the correct partitioned volume.

Also, if this isn't helpful, just simply boot to BIOS (usually hold F2 @startup) and set BIOS settings to default. Just make sure the the boot order is CD > HDD > LAN/USB/etc... or just boot to HDD first!

Re: Haiku won't boot after installing. . .

by starsseed - 2012-10-30 16:47

When you install Haiku, your BIOS doesn't find a valid bootable volume on your HDD and then fall back to the next bootable device, that is : the ethernet one.

This can be caused by a BFS volume not being flagged "ACTIVE" in the Intel partition table, an invalid MBR boot code, an UEFI bootable system...

1 ) check for your system to boot from the BIOS (disable the UEFI boot)
2 ) when you create your bootable BFS volume, ensure to check the "Active" checkmark

You'll may have to reinstall a valid MBR boot code since Windows installs its own (specific):
http://starsseed.free.fr/fixmbr.zip

NB : the nigthly build is recommended until Alpha4 is released (11/12/2012), but the AnyBoot image is better than the ISO.

Re: Haiku won't boot after installing. . .

by rayyu - 2012-10-30 23:03
starsseed wrote:

1 ) check for your system to boot from the BIOS (disable the UEFI boot)
2 ) when you create your bootable BFS volume, ensure to check the "Active" checkmark

You'll may have to reinstall a valid MBR boot code since Windows installs its own (specific):
http://starsseed.free.fr/fixmbr.zip

1. It's disabled
2. I thought that would solve the problem but I reinstalled, marked it as active. . . when I boot up, I get a blinking underscore at the top left OTL

el.tigre.20 wrote:

Firstly:

So: go into the BIOS and verify that the boot sequence has your HDD and CD drive before the PXE Boot.
Maybe worth doing a chkdsk to make sure that the disk isnt damaged (boot to windows 7 or chkdsk with a repair disk)

Hopefully, you've installed Haiku to the correct partitioned volume.

Also, if this isn't helpful, just simply boot to BIOS (usually hold F2 @startup) and set BIOS settings to default. Just make sure the the boot order is CD > HDD > LAN/USB/etc... or just boot to HDD first!

I put the PXE thing all the way down. I don't have a copy of a 32-bit windows 7 though. . . the windows 7 I referred to earlier was installed at a store, it was a starter that I promptly wiped. . .

I think I installed it right. . . it's the ONLY volume since I used the whole hard disk.

I loaded the default settings, changed the boot order. No avail, still blinking cursor :(((

Re: Haiku won't boot after installing. . .

by rayyu - 2012-10-30 23:04

also, how to you reinstall the mbr code? I downloaded the zip file.

Re: Haiku won't boot after installing. . .

by Diver - 2012-10-31 07:56

Did you initialized the whole disk as BFS? Try to create an Intel partition map first.
Somewhat similar https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8343#comment:7

Re: Haiku won't boot after installing. . .

by starsseed - 2012-10-31 10:30
Diver wrote:

Did you initialized the whole disk as BFS? Try to create an Intel partition map first.
Somewhat similar https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8343#comment:7

I think Rayyu already has an intel partition map on his disk.

rayyu wrote:

2. I thought that would solve the problem but I reinstalled, marked it as active. . . when I boot up, I get a blinking underscore at the top left OTL

then, you get a little further !

rayyu wrote:

also, how to you reinstall the mbr code? I downloaded the zip file.

may be I should add a little READ.ME file...

  1. Start HAIKU
  2. Expand FixMbr.zip
  3. open the folder where the script FixMBR.sh is located
  4. start a terminal from this folder (context menu)
  5. run
    ./FixMBR.sh /dev/disk/ata/0/master/raw

    adapt the device path to your actual HDD (DriveSetup display the drive's device path)

PS : you can also install the mbr.bin boot code provided in the FixMBR.zip archive from linux doing : 

dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sda1 bs=440 count=1

(adapt the device path to your actual HDD)

Re: Haiku won't boot after installing. . .

by rayyu - 2012-10-31 12:00
starsseed wrote:
Diver wrote:

Did you initialized the whole disk as BFS? Try to create an Intel partition map first.
Somewhat similar https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8343#comment:7

I think Rayyu already has an intel partition map on his disk.

I am a her :)

starsseed wrote:
rayyu wrote:

also, how to you reinstall the mbr code? I downloaded the zip file.

may be I should add a little READ.ME file...

  1. Start HAIKU
  2. Expand FixMbr.zip
  3. open the folder where the script FixMBR.sh is located
  4. start a terminal from this folder (context menu)
  5. run
    ./FixMBR.sh /dev/disk/ata/0/master/raw

    adapt the device path to your actual HDD (DriveSetup display the drive's device path)

PS : you can also install the mbr.bin boot code provided in the FixMBR.zip archive from linux doing : 

dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sda1 bs=440 count=1

(adapt the device path to your actual HDD)

Uh, I can't start haiku at all. It's installed, but when I boot up it's nothing but a blinking cursor. Can't access it at all :(

I'm gonna keep trying, though. It looks amazing on the livecd >_<

Re: Haiku won't boot after installing. . .

by rayyu - 2012-10-31 13:56

UPDATE!

initializing the intel partition map doesn't work either. . . still getting the blinking cursor. I don't really understand what's happening. . . I've been able to install this with no fiddling on my laptop, but my netbook is giving me hell. . . :(

Re: Haiku won't boot after installing. . .

by starsseed - 2012-10-31 14:37
rayyu wrote:

Uh, I can't start haiku at all. It's installed, but when I boot up it's nothing but a blinking cursor. Can't access it at all :(

I'm gonna keep trying, though. It looks amazing on the livecd >_<

So, how can-you install Haiku ????

-Boot from your Haiku CD
-clic on "Desktop (Live-CD)" instead of "Run Installer"
you should be able to run the FixMBR.sh script.

Re: Haiku won't boot after installing. . .

by rayyu - 2012-11-02 07:04

Thank you for all the help! I was able to boot haiku alpha 3 at last! :D This link--->https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8343#comment:7 seemed to solve my problem, specifically
this set of instructions from one of the comments:

Select the drive. Partition->Initialize->Intel Partition Map (agree to all the warnings)
Select the empty space. Partition->Create. It should be BFS by default.
Select the partition. Partition->Initialize->Be File System.

(I'm only mentioning it here because in the linuxquestions forums they usually ask people to post how they solved their problem. . . personally I think it's a good practice :))

Anyway, I'm downloading the latest nightly for wifi support. Can't wait for alpha 4 though :) Thanks again!