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Haiku raw image install: "No boot volume found"

Forum thread started by mr_a500 on Mon, 2009-02-16 20:31

Background:
I did a "dd" of the latest Haiku image to the first partition of my harddrive (other partitions contain Linux). In GRUB, I added Haiku entry to the menu.lst. I then booted from BeOS on a second harddrive, mounted the Haiku partition and ran "makebootable /Haiku". When I boot and select Haiku, it goes into the text Haiku boot loader menu (meaning no problem with GRUB entry).

The problem:
No boot volume shows up in the Haiku boot loader. If I scan for volumes, I get "no boot volume found".

What could I be doing wrong? From BeOS, you can see all the files on the Haiku volume. I ran some programs and they work fine. Any ideas?

How do I get sound in VMWare?

Forum thread started by Null1024 on Sun, 2009-02-15 17:21

So, after searching this site [and finding nothing], I'm wondering...
how do you get sound in VMWare? I'm using VMWare Player.

Sound problem under virtualbox and fonts problem

Forum thread started by amoldan on Fri, 2009-02-13 09:10

Hi All!

I am writing this through Haiku under Virtualbox under WinXP host (though Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 also works well).

However, under both hosts, I can't get the sound to work properly. I am using Intel sound chip emulation under Virtualbox and using directsound output and alsa output for windows and linux hosts respectively. Whenever I try to play any MP3 file through any software (Mediaplayer, CL-Amp, VLC), the sound is choppy, jittery and practically intolerable.

Is anyone of you facing the same problem? I believe this is Virtualbox problem but still wanted to confirm. Any solution for the same?

Further, I copied my windows fonts to /etc/fonts/ttfonts directory and rebooted haiku. However, now Firefox wouldn't display any text so I had to delete them. Is this the problem with Haiku or Firefox?

BTW, rest everything works well. I made another 2 gb vdi image and installed haiku from prebuilt VMware image to this image and managed to boot Haiku from it properly. It is snappier, though Firefox is little slow sometimes.

More drive space

Forum thread started by dsiefert on Fri, 2009-01-30 17:32

I am running Haiku on VirtualBox 2.1.2. The image provided is only 400MB fixed, so I've tried to add an additional drive to accomodate for all the development sources. I attached an 80GB dynamic image, loaded Haiku, Ran the disk manager and initialized as a BFS. I am also capable of checking out sources to the drive. The problem occurs when I try to interact with the disk such as listing the contents in terminal--Haiku locks up and I have to reboot the VM. Anybody else have similar issues?

Thanks,
David

Apache2 server fails to load.

Forum thread started by kvark on Thu, 2009-01-15 09:06

I've installed BeOS webserver kit on the fresh built Haiku. The try to load 'httpd' resulted in an error message saying there's no libphp4.so file. I tried 'tail /var/log/syslog' and got a correct error message 'runtime_loader: cannot open file _APP_'.

With help from Urias McCullough we found a mailing list thread connected to _APP_:
http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/Loading-addons,6

As far as I understood, the solution proposed in this thread is not acceptable in my case when httpd trys to load libphp4.so and libcgi.so, both requre _APP_ lib.

Does anyone have a general case solution?

Any update to the nVidia TNT/GF driver?

Forum thread started by Michael Crawford on Mon, 2009-01-05 04:42

I finally have a BeOS Pro 5.0.3 installation, and set aside two partitions on the box for Haiku. My plan is to port Ogg Frog to BeOS this week, and to test it regularly on Haiku, so that any Haiku bugs that affect me can be resolved before Haiku ships.

My on-board Intel 810 video works fine, but I also added an EVGA GeForce 5200 PCI/DVI card to drive this huge honking LCD screen I have.

When I installed the Haiku nVidia TNT/GF driver, it froze right at the end of the boot screen. I'm still able to start up by disabling user add-ons in the BeOS boot menu, but I can't use my monster screen.

That driver is version 0.80, last updated on April 11, 2006. Has it been updated since then?

I would expect that the same driver is available in a much later release in the Haiku snapshots. If I unpack a snapshot to one of the partitions I set aside for Haiku, then move the driver over to my BeOS system, can I expect it to work?

If the driver has been revised, I'd like to suggest that the build linked from BeBits be updated. If no one else wants to deal with it, and I can make it work for me, I'll be happy to do so.

Thanks! -- Mike

can't download large files? can't get any software to work?

Forum thread started by rymich on Sun, 2008-12-28 19:44

Here are my problems:

I can't download Firefox (~12 MB) because when it gets to about 25-30% the system completely freezes up and I have to switch off the power.

I tried to install Opera (~2 MB) which downloaded ok but then once 'installed' there's only a 'saved' file and a 'log' file in the install directory - there's no browser to open (won't open from terminal either).

I tried to install BeAIM but once logged in it shows my two buddy groups but nobody signed in. Is this version of AIM so old that I would need to import my buddy list or should it be able to load that information from the AIM server?

I tried to download Abiword, same story as firefox.

I don't mean to be a downer here but I can't get any software to work in Haiku which makes usage of the operating system a little unattractive (for the record i did get Links to work, but who wants to browse the internet in a text-browser in 2008 soon to be 2009?)

any ideas?

I'm running Haiku in Virtualbox. I initially used the ~250 MB vmware image and then created another virtual disk that was 1 GB and copied everything over - by following the guide in the end user docs

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