Hello, I “upgraded” to R1/beta3, only to find it doesn’t run properly. It freezes and crashes, both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. My computer is an HP with opteron 12-core cpu. How can I downgrade back to R1/beta2, which at least worked most of the time? I have been using Haiku for about 10 years. This is a great dissappointment.
Naive question: have you tried a current nightly?
Press space bar during beginning to boot and select one of the older system versions and start.
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Change the repo and then downgrade.
This page should cover the information about upgrading and downgrading your system: Updating and downgrading your system | Haiku Project
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Yes, I tried 4 different 32-bit nightlies. They were actually worse.
Unfortunately, I did not keep the older versions.
Is there a way to download the anyboot iso for R1/beta2, and then
have access to the nightly images that followed it, but preceded beta3?
You can install a beta over your existing install and update only the 3rdparty packages.
The page I linked also has instructions for updating/downgrading to a specific hrev number and locking your system there so you never get any updates.
Be aware that newer software will probably not run on older versions after a while. Support for a beta release stops as soon as the next one is released.
Thank you so much. I replaced the 64 version with R1/beta2. It now works. I will do the same with 32 bits. Curiously, R1/beta3 appears to run well (so far) on my Lennovo laptop. But I do prefer the desktop HP, because it has 12 cores and a bigger screen.
Please do open a ticket with pictures of the crashes, at least, so we could investigate them.
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