Install to HD

Forum thread started by DFergATL on Sun, 2011-08-14 02:30

I have a laptop that I am using for Haiku. Previously I have installed it to the HD. But, in order to get it to boot I have to initalize the Raw Device as Haiku. If I try to initalize with "Intel Partition Map" then create/initalzie a partition and install. Everything looks fine in Hard Drive Setup but it fails to boot. All I get is a blinking cursor on the top left.

Because of this I have simply done the initalzie the entire raw drive as haiku. But I want to do it the right way. I must be an idiot, I used to install BeOS without any issues. I must be doing something wrong in drive setup.

I want to use the entire drive, no need to worry about multipul partitions.

So, can somone point me to the directions for installing to HD. I have followed the ones I have seen online but still can't get it to install like it is supposed to.

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Re: Install to HD

by starsseed - 2011-08-15 16:33

When you initalize an "Intel Partition Map", DriveSetup doesn't install any MBR boot code unless the disc is blank. So you have to copy it from the "anyboot.img" disk image file.

Start DriveSetup to find the actual device_path for your target drive

Open Terminal and type the following command to install the MBR boot code from the source image (or source drive) to the target drive (adapt the command, to your actual device_paths):

dd if=anyboot.img of=/dev/disk/ata/0/master/raw bs=440 count=1

if is your source disk image file (you can also use a drive device path)
of is your target drive
bs is the size of the block to copy - in bytes (here, the size of the boot code area). If you don't want overwrite the partitions table, don't exceed 440 bytes !
count is the number of block to copy