The trap is actually in Linux doing things the wrong way. The name are indeed decorative, and this is not where you failed. So if you use Etcher like I did, make sure you don’t name your partition “Haiku”. To everyone else, now you know how to fail at installing Haiku. So my advice to the Haiku developers is to make sure the volume names are not used this way in the installer. So I formatted my partition again, I named it HaikuHDD and everything went well after that. And with this detail not being documented, I wasted an hour trying, failing, reading then try/fail/read again until I suspected the volume names would be the problem. Anyway, with me lacking experience with installing Haiku, I assumed the volume names are nothing but decorative, because I never encountered an OS that relied on those names to perform the installation. Now the more experienced people around here probably know what went wrong. second, each time when I formatted the newly created partition, DriveSetup proposed the volume name Haiku, which I accepted without second thoughts.first, Etcher automatically (without an option to name/change the label) named the partition Haiku.But after so many tries it occurred to me that I have two volumes named Haiku: So I reinstalled Haiku and I still had the newly installed Haiku boot loader but the OS failed to boot for some reason. By the way, I used /dev/disk/ata/0/master/raw because /dev/disk/ata/0/master/0 was not accepted by makebootable. It looks like makebootable installed the boot loader but also wiped my previous installation. I booted from the USB drive again and, to my surprise, DriveSetup reported I had no formatted partition on my HDD. So I booted Haiku from the USB drive (with Haiku installed on the HDD), I used makebootable on /dev/disk/ata/0/master/raw, I rebooted and I got Haiku’s boot loader but it couldn’t boot for some reason. So I ended up reading How To Get Haiku Booted and then makebootable - What and why and how to do it manually. I assumed there was something wrong with hrev52039 or DriveSetup, which doesn’t do anything (after the partition is formatted) when I click Change parameters… in the Partition menu, although the option is active when I have the Haiku partition selected. I booted from the USB drive, I wiped all the partitions from the HDD, I created a single partition for Haiku, I formatted it and made it active, I installed Haiku and after I rebooted I saw a broken grub (I had Ubuntu previously). Important: I read the ( a Haiku USB Stick) guide and I decided to use Etcher to write the hybrid ISO to the USB drive. I successfully installed hrev52031 in a virtual machine (VirtualBox) and now that I wanted to do some Wi-Fi & Ethernet testing I installed Haiku hrev52039 on an old laptop - sort of. Before you read, be aware that this is the story of a few failures, and what I learned, not a call for help.
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