Ok guys, trying to get Haiku going on an old Inspiron 8000. It’s a Pentium III 800mhz with 256mb of RAM, Cd-RW drive, ethernet port, 1600x1200 display.
I tried simply booting from the CD and got stuck after the third icon lit up. Restarted and went to the safe mode options. Not being sure I just ticked ALL of the safe mode options and continued to boot. Exact same issue, third icon then locks.
Anyone successfully installed on one of these machines before? If so what am I missing? The hardware should be pretty standard for the time that BeOS was around so I would have thought that Haiku (being so similar to BeOS) would work flawlessly on it.
Try to boot with Enable on screen debug output safe mode option set. Take a picture if possible. It’s probably better to track this issue through the proper channel (i.e at http://dev.haiku-os.org)
Ok, I managed to get past the error by typing “continue” when it pops up. Problem is on one of the Inspiron 8000s I keep getting a “device recalibrate” error during install…on the other one it just keeps randomly powering down without warning when trying to load the installer.
Any ideas? I REALLY want to run Haiku on one of these old things, been wanting a BeOS-like system for so many years and I finally have the perfect old machines for it.
On more than one occasion I have had problems getting Haiku to boot of the USB on a number of laptop models that pass thru the repair center where I work.
Note: I do this as Haiku makes a great test OS when you don’t know what the customer has done to his/her Windows software.
80-90% of the time, a computer that will not boot off the USB will boot to the desktop if I replace the customer’s hard drive with my own.
If it is possible to find a computer that will boot, use it to format a cheap ssd/hard drive with Alpha 4.1 and the latest nightly for test purposes.
looks like brand new, barely used…
I also thought that Haiku will just fly on it, I remember BeOS from its hey-days and it ran on Dell Inspirion not sure what model… but Haiku freezes, stops and continues, sometimes find hardware, sometimes not… and all in all I can’t use it…
I hope beta or RC will be out soon