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How do I remove BootManager?

Forum thread started by paulfxh on Sat, 2011-06-18 17:37

Sorry, this is just a little complicated but I need to include this detail to explain the problem.

I'm in the process of recuperating an old Netbook which has two ssd's (4 GB and 16 GB).
I had initially installed Haiku (r42190) on the smaller ssd which, AFAIK, put BootManager into /dev/sda1 rather than the mbr of the first disk.
Nevertheless, it still booted fine.

Then, I installed Ubuntu in two partitions (/ and /home) on the larger ssd. Because the installer was unable to install Grub to the mbr of /dev/sda (some kind of incompatibility with the BFS on this disk), I instead installed it in /dev/sdb1 (the root partition rather than the mbr of the larger disk).
Then I went back to Haiku and used BootManager to create a boot menu.
However, BootManager would not install on the smaller disk's mbr (saying that no space was available -- which I don't understand as nothing should have been in this mbr) so I had to install it in the mbr of the larger disk.
This enabled me to boot to the Haiku bootloader and select either Ubuntu or Haiku. Great.

But, I wanted Grub as my bootloader.
So, back in Ubuntu, I deleted everything on the smaller disk, created a new partition /dev/sda1, installed Grub to the mbr of the smaller disk and then removed the Haiku bootloader from the mbr of the larger disk by running
# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1
I was a bit surprised when the output from this command showed zero input and output but, nevertheless, I proceeded to reboot.
However, I was amazed to find that, on reboot, the BootManager menu showed up again, fully functional, and NOT Grub.
I then, in Ubuntu, ran the boot_info_script which confirmed that Grub2 was installed without any problems in the mbr of /dev/sda.

I'm baffled.
Can anybody suggest how I might get rid of BootManager so that I can get Grub to do the bootloading?

[Solved] Install and network problem

Forum thread started by Sexy_Champi on Fri, 2011-06-17 17:03

Bonjour, je vais écrire en français pour ce problème sinon cela risque d'être compliqué dans ma traduction xD

Je suis entrain d'essayer d'installer HAIKU R1A2 sur un Pentium II.

C'est là qu'est le problème. Pendant l'installation il y a une erreur au paquet 786 (pour le webpositive)
Et je ne sais pas pourquoi et comment le résoudre.
Ce n'est pas une erreur de gravure du cd car je l'ai déjà utilisé pour un autre pc.

J'ai trouvé une résolution de ce problème mais un autre problème vient à ce moment.
Voir le lien pour l'explication de la solution :
http://www.haikuzone.net/tips/installation/work-around-general-system-er...

Je ne parviens pas à avoir une connexion, je suis branché en Ethernet sur ma Box, dans l'onglet network du desktop il y écris pourtant que je suis branché quoi.
J'ai essayé de ping mon autre pc ou ma box mais rien n'y fait.

Donc voilà, si vous avez besoin de plus d'explication je veux bien vous les fournir, et si je dois écrire en anglais je veux bien essayer x)

Merci

Thomas

List Dynamic Dependencies

Forum thread started by TmTFx on Mon, 2011-06-13 14:06

I wanna use cxfreeze to build a binary of my python program, but seems haiku lacks of ldd unix command, where can i find him?

Install stall on Dell Precision 390

Forum thread started by 33Nicolas on Wed, 2011-05-25 03:05

Hi everyone, I got a second hand Dell Precision 390 with two SATA 150gb drives. The Haiku install goes as far as the drive icon and stale with a kernel message.

Before I delve too deep in it, anyone ever installed Haiku on a 390?

Thanks, Nick

haiku on virtualbox

Forum thread started by bulutaras on Sat, 2011-05-21 16:39

Hi,
I tried HAiku on virtualbox via a vmdk image. I wanted to resize harddisc because its not enough.(only 50 mb free space). I tried to create a new vdi file and clone it but it seems harddisc remains the same size. When i checked the free space with "df" command still there is 50 mb free space.

I think a resizing operation required but Haiku wont let this kind of operation for existing partitions.

So, is the document (https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/virtualizing/virtualbox#part_vmimage) wrong or am i missing something?

Also i could not mount harddisc from a new generated vdi. I can see it on the list of disc utility but cant do anything with it.

Thanks, in advance.

problems with sound and network

Forum thread started by lukves on Fri, 2011-05-20 12:35

i test R1A3 RC and i have this problems :

1.. my integrated network card Realtek 8111 on GIGABYTE G41MT-D3 mainboard is corectly set via DHCP but internet is not running
2. i know that for my nvidia gt240 is not driver in haiku yet but this graphics have sound card and is set as default and there is not option to set again to mainboard sound card.. in Media pref is veiw only one HD sound and there is not choice to switch to mainboard sound

sorry for my not very good english, but english is not my native language

printing still broken

Forum thread started by Snuhwolf on Fri, 2011-05-13 20:25

it seems that printing is still broken in Haiku. using gutenprint as the driver and Parallel as the port i keep getting "init_transport failed" error messages. any ideas?

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