"Failed to load OS" error

[jedie]

I get the "Failed to load OS" error on my ASUS A8J. But the USB-Stick works well on a other PC. I can only Boot the Live CD on the ASUS A8J, this works fine.

[jedie]

Some data: BIOS Date: 10/11/06 Ver: A8JAS.212 (This is the latest available BIOS version) CPU: Intel T1300

[stippi]

"Failed to load OS" seems to be a message from the BIOS. I wouldn't trust a computer from 2006 to boot off of USB reliably. Have you tried any other operating systems to boot from a USB stick on this computer?

[jedie]

No, i found the string "Failed to load OS" on the disk. So i think it's a part of the Haiku boot loader.

I installed SystemRescueCd on the same USB-stick and i can boot this one...

[stippi]

Ok, that makes sense. At this stage, I believe the Haiku loader would access the disk via the BIOS still. There seems to be a problem with that, but I am not qualified to ask further info, maybe someone else can chime in... :-)

[marcusoverhagen]

"Failed to load OS" is printed by the stage 1 bootloader. I have a similar problem, #4408.

[jedie]

OK, now it works.

I used the windows tool "Haiku On A Stick" ​http://modeen.se/HaikuOnAstick.htm and used the R33149 GCC4 image.

After this i run "makebootable" on a Haiku system.

and now i can boot from the USB Stick ;)

Should we close this ticked?

[stippi]

Hm. While it does make it sound like you made a "user error" the first time around, you also said that the very same stick booted on another system. Did you mean that the same physical stick booted with another installation of Haiku, or did you mean that the stick with the very same installation booted on another system but not on this one? If you talked about two different installations, we could close this ticket as invalid, otherwise it wouldn't be satisfactorily solved yet. :-)

[jedie]

In the first test, is used the "normal" Alpha1 R33109 Now, i used R33149.

Don't know if the revision works now or if my stick wasn't right "installed" on the first test.

Think we can close this ticked as invalid.

[mmlr]

It sounds like not properly installed. Most probably installed to a partition instead of the whole disk and not made bootable afterwards.