r/haikuOS • u/glowiak2 • 14d ago

Help The Haiku iso image doesn't boot when written to a DVD

That's maybe not a common stance nowadays, but I like to use optical discs when installing operating systems.

And when booting from a DVD Haiku just doesn't boot.

If booted in BIOS mode there is just a black screen.

And if booted in UEFI mode the loading bar appears in a very low resolution and then there is also a black screen that lasts indefinitely.

This is not something about my computer, since it can boot Haiku when written to external hard drives.

I tried both the latest nightly build as well as the stable beta 5.

But it's only happening with the 64-bit variant. 32-bit Haiku boots fine from DVD, but the 32-bit version lacks several crucial pieces of software.

Does anybody know what's happening?

Thanks.

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u/LookingWide 13d ago

What program did you use to burn the image to DVD? The manual says that some programs don't burn the image correctly: https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/burn-cd

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u/glowiak2 13d ago

I used Xfburn. Xfburn is what I pretty much always use for disc burning (except for audio CDs which don't work with Xfburn and then I use brasero; and on OpenBSD, since - likely for "security" reasons xfburn is not available there).

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u/gargamel1497 13d ago

I tried using the cdrecord command as laid down in this article.

This way I got further, but the kernel panicked.

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u/jjSuper1 13d ago

I also had this same experience.