I've been working on a shortened live cd script. I thought I had it working, but it was just booting of my haiku partition. Yes I know there is a live cd script, but I wanted to make a simplier one that would use a pre-downloaded haiku.image.bz2, as I can't access the internet with my Zeta partition. I took some code from the livecdscript on bebits, in the Haiku source code, and some old tricks from Betips. I believe the boot floppy(cd) image is fine, and recognizes my Haiku partition, but it doesn't recognize the haiku.image which is burnt to track 2. Possibly I'm storing track 2 in the wrong format. I know the Alpha is coming soon, but I just want to see if I(we) can do it before then (for personal use only!). If the script eventually does succeed I have no intention of spreading a pre-alpha version of haiku. On another note, after studying the haikulivecdscript code, One is able to "drop" haiku.image.bz2 into the same directory as the script, renaming it haiku.image.compressed or "drop" an uncompressed "haiku.image" into the same area and it will do the same thing as my shortened script. Although both leave me with unbootable cd coasters. I am including the small script I wrote with the hope someone will know how to complete it. You must have bzip2,mkhybrid,makebootfl oppy, and haiku.image.bz2 in the same directory. I could not include them here in the forum 120kb limit! If someone wishes I will email the whole folder to them, my email can be obtained from my profile. I will continue to work/research it myself. But the answers may lie in a team effort. Who knows maybe the developers disabled something in haiku.image to distract from this? Any ideas?

Post edited by: EiGHtBiT, at: 2008/01/19 02:09

Yea, I'm not sure, maybe something is disabled in haiku.image, or maybe the bootloader just isn't finished. I saw some recent commits from mmu_man regarding this, but I think it was to get Haiku running for Atari.

Anyways, keep us up informed if you get something working!

Yeah I think mmu_man is working on an m86 (?) port or something. He did get some work done on the boot loader so it might help in the end.

Has anyone tried to build the newest Haiku live cd? I've been watching the mailing list threads and we should be able to build with "jam haiku-boot-cd" now. I've tried but it keeps failing at the very end when it should be generating the ISO file.

Ideas?

Would be cool if someone could compile and upload a LVE CD

And i REALLY need a way to install Bootman again.. and ideas ?

problem:
WinXP, Linux shows up in grub. BUT i have Zeta and Haiku installed aswell. Howto boot them all... pref with Bootman

Ideas ?

hey man, i think thenerd is working on that although it probably won't be that useful yet. it brings up the installer so far, not sure if it can actually install, or if the disk manager works...

for bootman reinstall,

boot zeta, just go to applications/terminal type in 'bootman' without quotes and it'll guide you through installing the bootloader.