Installing AROS (x86) to HD?

[Ogun]

Did you download the floppy version or the CDRom version? I want to know simply so I can write a small document on how to do this.

Will be a new experience for me as well, even though I am one of the people responsible for ide.device and trackdisk.device

Regards,
  Johan

[Ogun]

@RKY:
Most likely it has not crashed. It is just taking a very long time to complete. This can happen if you have a lot of memory or the BIOS in your machine does not configure the MTRR correctly.

Have you tried waiting a couple of minutes?

This obviously needs fixing.

//Johan

[Ogun]

Johan has been really clever and managed to get the PC to Boot RDB disks. You have to use his special install program in the C dir. Which puts Grub

Uhm, that was actually Sebastian Heutling that wrote those things, together with HDToolbox and our FFS implementation. I merely write hardware drivers.

I am not completely sure if our customized GRUB understands RDBs either, but we shall certainly have a look at that.

[Ogun]

I think it might be a good idea to include the install docs with the next distos.

Well, this is where I would like to point out that harddisk installations of AROS is highly experimental at this stage. I would call it Alpha. High risk of nuking things on the harddisk. As a matter of fact I just found a neat little bug in ide.device causing geometries to be faulty. Currently working on making it deal with disks larger than 8.3 Gb as well.

[Ogun]

I agree with the aforementioned post. Kudos, you guys. I've been watching you for a couple of years now, but what you've done is incredible. I acutally pulled an old 340MB drive from a router that I was going install AROS on, yet I found no documentations. I'd be more than willing to do some HDD install tests if you give me some docs.  

As I said above, my current priority is to get HDD installs to work. I am now quite confident in that I have fixed the needed geometry translations, so now I will focus on getting it all integrated nicely.

The only thing is, what do you mean you have to use a special grub, boot-loader? I would assume that since it's RDB, grub or lilo would work fine??

Normal PC bootloaders does not understand RDB partitioning for some reason . Hence we have a patched GRUB included in our distribution which also does the VBE things for us. In addition it also supports reading from FFS formatted partitions. We are working on getting this included into the official GRUB, so as to make life easier and probably be of benefit for Amithlon users (No more FAT partition needed to boot)