Newbie here, flashed the Haiku iso on my usb and tried booting into it, I saw the Haiku branding but the icons under them never lit up, the screen just froze. I also tried with both SHIFT/SPACE to enter boot settings but right after I pressed space it just froze even earlier.
Specs:
Apple iMac Late-2013
2.9Ghz Quad-Core Intel i5
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 1 GB
1 TB SATA
Additional Info:
Used the 64-bit ISO
I genuinely would love to convert this thing to a haiku workhorse, I have my main laptop as backup and the Mac has lost support for the latest macOS versions, Haiku could genuinely be a great replacement for macOS in these intel Macs Apple is leaving behind giving them a second future.
I did not try nightly image yet, I was afraid even if it worked it might be very unstable and I am not too sure if Id be able to switch back to beta after that.
Any help or solutions would be much appreciated, thanks!
Update 1: Tried nightly image, same issue, will try 32 bit next…
I definetely Agree, Haiku would be a nice thing to fill in for these now-unsupported macs.
I have similar hw generations, a mac mini 2012 and 2014, both of these exhibit the same symstom. iirc I got further with it by disabeling some options in the bootloader, but I don’t recall which those were.
Anyway, for your iMac I already see a bit of problematic hardware, your nvidia gpu. Haiku unfortunately has no nvidia drivers for anything recent, not even for modesettting. Perhaps we can support this iMac regardless if it also has internal graphics.
I have a 2014 MBP, i7 with same 750m gpu, and Haiku will boot with rEFInd. Holding Option and selecting USB boot worked ages ago, haven’t tried in over 8 years since rEFInd is so good as boot manager.