Here are the specs:
CPU Mobile AMD Athlon™ XP-M 2400+
Video Sis741
Optical Drive DVD+CD-RW
Hard Drive 60
Memory 512MB DDR
Wireless LAN 802.11g
Wired LAN 10/100 LAN
Modem 56k
USB (4x) 2.0
I’m booting off a cd made from mini-be and mmadia’s boot image site.
The boot image was for R5.0.3/IDE Replace/AMD/CD/768RAM. When I turn on console debug it just loops endlessly at trying /dev/disk…(yada yada yada /master/0/raw.
Then prints a bunch of IDE PCI and IDE ATA lines.
I’ve tried all different combos of the boot loader options but can’t get any past that loop. Anyone have an idea?
The harddrive is just a standard laptop 60GB. I’m thinking that it might be the DVD drive. I’m currently having trouble getting Be onto my main system because it wont boot off the DVD drive (sony dual layer). I can get an old Dano partition booting but all the fonts are gone and deskbar just crashes all over the place.
If you want to see something truely weird delete all the system and user fonts and reboot. It’s a bit crazy. As soon as I get around to getting Ghost back onto a system I’ll pull back an old backup.
The laptop is just frustrating. I’m not sure of the chipsets and the averatec site sucks so I’ve got little to go on. As I said I tried the IDE replacement, is it possable that the old one might work? I just don’t know. I’m so bad with hardware.
the haiku live cd boots on my laptop with no problems at all. Is there any way to cannibalize it to make my dano partition bootable?
If I understand, you’re asking if you can install Haiku on it?
Technically, yes - you could initialize the BFS partition you wish to install Haiku on, and then copy the contents of haiku.image to it. You would then use the “makebootable” util to add the haiku bootloader to the partition (I’m assuming it’s on the haiku.image, but I don’t know)…
The rest is up to your bootloader - bootman works fine here for loading a Haiku partition, as that’s what I’m using here.
well, I want to do that in the future, ie later today. But what I was actually asking is that since haiku seems to run on this hardware would it be possible to compile the source to target Dano or R5 and use the produced drivers to get Dano/R5 up and running? I’m pretty sure that the standard AMD kernel patch will work. I think the big wall is currently the graphics card.
