To boot or not to boot (To BeOS or not to BeOS?) - bios_ia32 stage 1 - again

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Hello,
I tried several different ways to get Haiku running. Mostly I installed it onto a 64GB USB3 Ventura Plus usb-stick by mushkin, 32bit and 64bit, observing the usual procedures - initialize usb-stick as Intel partition, format the whole usb-stick with Be-format, then installing Haiku from the live usb-system.
Usually I get the “bios_ia32 stage 1 : Failed to load OS” message.
The only pc that booted the mushkin stick is a system from 2013: Intel i3-3220T processor, LGA1155, mainboard Gigabyte GA-B75N, 2x DDR3 RAM PC1600.
Haiku did not boot from an older Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E330 running some Intel i3 and 2x 4GB RAM.
Haiku did also not boot from a newer system from 2020 running Intel i5-9500T, Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro Mainboard, 2x DDR4 PC2666/2400/2133 RAM.
And Haiku did also not boot from the latter 2 pc’s when installed to a 60gb or 30gb MSATA-SSD on a usb3 adapter-card.

What I do not understand is that the “live system” i.e. the downloaded file from the Haiku website R1/beta4 and written to a 4gb usb-stick with BalenaEtcher always boots on every system/pc.

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Are you creating a partition in between these steps? A lot of people try formatting the entire raw disk as BFS which doesn’t boot on many machines.

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Hi, yes, I did create a partition in between these steps. Just have tried another time today with no result.

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Are you sure you did this correctly, the UI is a bit confusing.

You need to:

  • Create a partition table
  • Create a partition and make it active
  • Format the partition (make sure to not reformat the whole drive and erase the partition that you just created)
  • Then install Haiku on that partition

Also, if your machines are using EFI, you need a few extra steps to set up an EFI system partition and copy the Haiku bootloader to it.

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Is this part of the user guide? Would be good.

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Why you write into the topic be OS then you ask for Haiku? :thinking: Yes Haiku is a rebuild of be OS, but it is much more. :smiling_face:

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BeOS? First of all it was just a joke. But way back in time I had BeOS running on at least one pc and it was great. Haiku I don’t get running so for me it is not much more but much less than BeOS!

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The complete EFI thing is unknown to me.
All other steps you describe I executed with Haiku Drive Setup and Haiku Installer.