Help with Multi-Boot System

Forum thread started by c0op3r on Tue, 2011-03-01 03:00

Hello everyone

I am a new user here but not totally new to BeOS and Haiku, I had BeOS 4.5 running on a Dual P3 back in the day, and I recently came across a system that was very similar, blah blah . . . Snip!

OK to get to the point I have the system setup to multi-boot using Grub, I currently have Win Xp, in the First Partition, a small Grub chainload partition, and an extended partition for the Ubuntu and Haiku.

I can boot the Ubuntu and the XP with no problems, but when I try to boot the Haiku CDrom so that I can install it in the partition that I have set aside for it, I can never get the CD to load all the way. Haiku Boot CD gets 4 icons in and then jumps out into debug mode with an error of 'did not find any boot partitions'

I know the Haiku CD works, because I have installed, Haiku before but the only way I could get it to work was to have a Hard Drive that had nothing on it.

So any help will be great.

c0op3r

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Comments

Re: Help with Multi-Boot System

by starsseed - 2011-03-01 19:13

You need to install Haiku in a primary partition. You can't boot an extended partition (except Grub/Linux)

regards

Re: Help with Multi-Boot System

by bbjimy - 2011-03-01 21:52

You need to install Haiku in a primary partition. You can't boot an extended partition (except Grub/Linux)

That's interesting as I am currently booted on an extended partition using Haiku's bootmanager. To boot from a second hard disk, one needs a different bootmanager as the haiku one will only show partitions on one hard disk.

Re: Help with Multi-Boot System

by Hubert - 2011-03-01 22:19

Hi c0op3r.

I see you use BeOS 4.x, maybe interest you this topic:

http://haikuware.com/forum/beoszetahaiku/1859-anyone-running-beos-r4

Re: Help with Multi-Boot System

by Hubert - 2011-03-01 22:22
bbjimy wrote:

That's interesting as I am currently booted on an extended partition using Haiku's bootmanager. To boot from a second hard disk, one needs a different bootmanager as the haiku one will only show partitions on one hard disk.

Exactly.

Re: Help with Multi-Boot System

by bbjimmy - 2011-03-03 01:36

Haiku Boot CD gets 4 icons in and then jumps out into debug mode with an error of 'did not find any boot partitions'

This looks like a bios or ata driver problem. Might want to try a nightly build and see if it will boot from the cdrom.

Re: Help with Multi-Boot System

by tonestone57 - 2011-03-03 05:48
bbjimmy wrote:

Haiku Boot CD gets 4 icons in and then jumps out into debug mode with an error of 'did not find any boot partitions'

This looks like a bios or ata driver problem. Might want to try a nightly build and see if it will boot from the cdrom.

Could be what bbjimmy says or something else. This seems to be a hard bug to debug.

http://dev.haiku-os.org/search?q=%22did+not+find+any+boot+partitions%22&...

Looking at some of the tickets above may help you out.

If the crash happens in main2 (or another general thread) then difficult to debug.

On-screen debug + your hardware list (lspci -nn in Linux) would help somewhat. Syslog or serial debug would help even more. Go into safe-mode for these.

http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/ReportingBugs#Syslog

You should also create a ticket with whatever information you can get from what I listed above.
http://dev.haiku-os.org

Re: Help with Multi-Boot System

by sparklewind - 2011-03-04 08:10

The easiest way to multi-boot Windows, Linux and Haiku would be to first install GRUB to your Linux partition and not to the MBR, then install bootman by typing "bootman" in the terminal application in Haiku. When you choose the "Ubuntu" (or whatever you decide to name it) option in bootman, it will take you to GRUB, which is only needed to boot Linux.