Anyboot does not boot

[xchris]

Trying to install the anyboot image from an USB flash.

I got only this message:

Loading System Read Error

[xchris]

System specs: ThinkPad X24

[luroh]

Sounds like a bad image, dd or USB stick. Assuming you are on a *nix, try to re-download, dd, and run 'sync' before restarting or pulling the stick out, to make sure everything is flushed to the stick. If that doesn't work, try another USB stick if possible.

[xchris]

I always "sync" after dd... Finally managed to solve the problem by using an old 1GB (Kingston) flash drive. I used three different "newer" USB flash that failed to boot (all of them 8/16 GB)

[luroh]

Ok, thanks for checking. If you're up for it, you could try to dd a raw image to a "bad" USB stick to see if that helps. Although not advertised, most (all?) mirrors have this image as well, you just manually have to edit the URL to download it, e.g. ​http://mirror.rit.edu/haiku/releases/r1alpha4.1/haiku-r1alpha4.1-image.tar.xz

[xchris]

Thank you very much for the support.

It seems a "bug" of the Thinkpad X24's BIOS... Booting Haiku from USB works *ONLY* if I boot via the Plop Boot manager, anything else causes the "Read Error".

Well, still I cannot boot to the OS as it stops on KDL https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8909

[luroh]

Yeah, I have a machine that hangs right out of the gate at POST, with USB sticks formatted anything else than FAT16. I guess there's not much we can do about the X24 case, which also a google search seems to confirm. Closing this ticket, keeping an eye on #8909 instead.