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coolbean

coolbean (account has been reverted to before we moved back to this instance)

im in quite a situation, turns out the dragonfly .iso is not the correct file to write to my flash drive, have to use the .img

problem being haiku doesnt want to boot now
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coolbean

coolbean (account has been reverted to before we moved back to this instance)

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i have no operating system
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coolbean

coolbean (account has been reverted to before we moved back to this instance)

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only bootable devices i have access to are

1. serverbox

2. phone

things are getting a bit desperate
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ellenor2000@mastodon.top

Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs

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@coolbean will serverbox help at alls

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coolbean

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my situation just got a lot more difficult (serverbox's hard drive is not shown in the list of valid boot devices, the dragonfly install cant find its own root file system)
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coolbean

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@ellenor2000 it has internet access, dd and the fetch command

however apparently no working hard drive
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ellenor2000@mastodon.top

Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs

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@coolbean as long as you have enough ram for the image in /tmp, and a USB port, you'll be ok

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coolbean

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@ellenor2000 how so, nothing is booting
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ellenor2000@mastodon.top

Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs

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@coolbean i meant on serverbox, so you can copy an image to usb and do booting on the 3rd comp

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coolbean

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@ellenor2000 yea but it doesnt boot either, hard drives done for, i cant

flash drive is unbootable due to being the wrong fucking file

haiku is unbootable due to black magic fuckery

serverbox is unbootable due to dead hard drive
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ellenor2000@mastodon.top

Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs

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Edited 1 year ago

@coolbean how does it have working dd & fetch then? (you can use those, and a tmpfs, to download correct file)

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coolbean

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@ellenor2000 it doesnt, it would have working dd and fetch if it was able to boot but as it turns out it cant
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ellenor2000@mastodon.top

Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs

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@coolbean is it on a disk it doesn't understand?

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coolbean

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@ellenor2000 no, when listing valid boot devices in the manual root selection thing the hard drive doesnt even show up, it is actually just gone
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ellenor2000@mastodon.top

Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs

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Edited 1 year ago

@coolbean try uhhhhh hammer2:ad0s1? idfk

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ellenor2000@mastodon.top

Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs

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@coolbean ohh that's

bad

and you've tried the painfully obvious unplug/replug?

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coolbean

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@ellenor2000 not there, no d0s0 or anything, only the cd drive and stuff like that
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coolbean

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@ellenor2000 not yet, did try rebooting but yea, gonna try again tomorrow, too tired for now
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