I can’t seem to boot haiku. I downloaded the latest source code as of today and complied it using the folowing commands;
./configure
makehdimage /test3
then I ran bootman and added that partition to the boot loader. When I try to boot off that partition I get the Haiku logo, but then it just sits there with no HD activity. I have trided all the spacebar options to no avail. Did I miss something? My system specs are as follows;
Athlon 1.4ghz
512mb /w full ECC
Geforce3
Some cheap NIC
No floppy drive.
In addition to that, some weeks ago, I also tried to build Haiku from one of the source code snapshots, but that didn’t work. After that, I went the other way, installed subversion, and checked out the Haiku source code that way, and it has been working (and booting) flawlessly since then.
" I also tried to build Haiku from one of the source code snapshots, but that didn’t work." Did it fail durring a compile or boot? I guess I could bite the bullet and subversion it.
I got a BUILD FAILED message, and it didn’t, IIRC, install anything. So you decide whether a subversion checkout is worth a try.
Of course, the thing is: initially it’ll take a long while to check out everything, but after that initial step, keeping the source code up to date through subversion will save you a lot of bandwidth compared to always downloading whole new archives (since subversion will only download the modified files) if you want to upgrade, so I’d recommend it.
As I said, it takes a while, but it’s much better than a Gentoo stage 1 install, if that’s of any comfort to you
Nope, compile from source did not help. I just hangs at the haiku logo. I guess it does not like my computer I’ll try in a few weeks and see if newer code helps.
It’s entirely possible that Haiku isn’t playing very nice with your hardware just yet. It doesn’t quite work right on the machine I do all my development on - the input_server doesn’t run. My edjumacated guess is that motherboard chipsets have a something to do with it. What kind of motherboard do you have?
Well I played with every setting in the bios and now it seems to boot. I’m trying to track down wich setting it was but so far it seems to be “PCI/VGA Snooping”. Weird. But now it boots fine, but no mouse or KB support. I think I have a ABIT KG7 mobo with a AMD 760 chipset. So either its a kernel/driver bug or the input server does not work like yours. I do have a USB mouse, are those supported?
PS. Been keeping tabs on the CVS entries on CIA, keep up the great work DarkWyrm.
Since I don’t really know where to post a message such as this, I’ll use this thread…
For some days, I’ve had problems with the keyboard and mouse. For a time reference: I think it started when I checked out the sources a day or two after the Haiku logo was made to appear on the lower right corner of the desktop.
Mouse and keyboard suddenly didn’t work anymore. This continued through a few svn updates. About two hours ago, I checked out the latest updates from the SVN repository (rev. 13223, I think), and additionally deleted the /Distro and the /objects folder before calling the makehdimage script, so that everything would be newly built.
Now the keyboard seems to work again in MiniTerminal, and I can move the mouse downward. You read it right, I can move the mouse pointer downward at the left edge of the screen, but not right or up (left I can’t check out, for obvious reasons… ).
I’m using a normal PS/2 mouse and keyboard, and both have worked in previous revisions.
I’ll try in a few weeks and see if newer code helps.