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Haiku Alpha 3 doesn't boot up

Forum thread started by Flayshon on Thu, 2012-01-19 05:40

I've just installed Haiku Alpha 3 using a burned CD (from the ISO image), but I can't boot up from my Hard Disk. Here's what I've done so far:

1. Deleted an old ext4 partition using GParted from a live-cd.

2. Booted from the Haiku CD and went through the installation process. Selected the disk part where I formely had an ext4, created a BeOS Filesystem, initialize->Be File System then mounted the partition (/Haiku1). The installation went fine, but...

3. I'm using GRUB2, so I went into my Ubuntu 10.04 and did a "sudo update-grub". Rebooted and Haiku didn't appeared on the list.

4. Tried to use a custom menu list (40_custom) with the entry suggested on the installation process

menuentry "Haikku Alpha 3"{
set root=(hd0,7)
chainloader +1
}

The menu entry appeared, but I just got a black screen.

5. Tried to make the partition bootable using the same Haiku live-cd

makebootable /dev/disk/ata/0/master2_2

and also on a Mount point...

mount /dev/disk/ata/0/master2_2 /Haiku/home/point
makebootable /Haiku/home/point

didn't worked as well.

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Can somebody help me with this? I know my Hardware does support Haiku, because the live-cd session ran just fine. I just couldn't boot from my Hard drive...

No disk space

Forum thread started by chrisp1000 on Fri, 2012-01-13 23:20

Hi I have just updated my alpha 1 to an alpha 3, well done btw. I was about to install the optional packages when I wondered how much of the 10GB partition I had given Haiku, was left so I ran the disk usage app and it said I only had 1GB free. Of a 10GB partition. wtf!?

I installed the optional apps anyway and now I only have 420MB left. of a 10GB partition. Either you guys have done a superb job of fitting GB's of data onto a CD or there is something weird going on. Or I am insane.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

DD vs BFS

Forum thread started by Earl Colby Pottinger on Fri, 2012-01-13 09:57

I am trying to make a disk image of a 160GB drive. The terminal command I used was:

dd bs=2M of=/Data_Backup/Drive.Image if=/dev/disk/ata/0/slave/raw

The copy fails after 138787422208 bytes (139 GB) are written with an error of 'File too large'

Is this a limitation of the DD program or the BFS used by Haiku?

Bootup from USB leads to pattern of full screen colors

Forum thread started by RAPHAEL on Thu, 2012-01-05 23:40

Hard to describe it but when booting from USB it goes past the icons then screen turns black then it cycles through several colors and patterns and repeats the colors and pattern cycle.

This is the full specs of my computer:
http://www.amazon.com/HP-210-1010NR-10-1-Inch-Black-Netbook/dp/tech-data...

Windows Key for Mac?

Forum thread started by el.tigre.20 on Thu, 2011-12-29 14:50

As every good Haiku user knows, Haiku Alpha 3 introduced the new window tiling and stacking and all one must do is drag one windows over another while holding the Windows key and voila the windows snap together. Unfortunately I am running Haiku as a Guest OS on Virtualbox with the Host being a MacBook pro running OS X Lion. So I have not windows key and when I Googled Windows Key equivalent for Mac, the result was that the Apple Command key was the equivalent. But..... the left Command key is the fundamental key for activating virtual peripherals like a mouse in Virtualbox. and when I use the right Command key, nothing happens. This may seem like a trivial problem, but I really would like to be able to use every part of Haiku.

another usb boot problem

Forum thread started by hitsware on Wed, 2011-12-28 19:12

I have written anyboot.img to a usb stick.
When I put it in my target pc (mini-itx w/atom),
it goes to the bootloader and says:
select boot volume (none).
What have I missed or done wrong ?
TIA
Mike

Gutenprint HP Laserjet 1012

Forum thread started by kidd106 on Tue, 2011-12-27 00:10

I tried to set up a laserjet 1012 with Haiku with Gutenprint as the driver. After selecting Gutenprint as the driver a dialog popped up to select the printer. The printer was listed so I selected it. I tried to print a test page. It said it was printing and no errors came up, and yet nothing happened with the printer. Is the printer supported?

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