Haiku on Eee 900

1

Hi,

I try to get Haiku on a spare Eee 900, and it seems to boot fine. But when I come to the desktop it only shows a blue background and a cursor - nothing more happens, is this a known problem? I used the anyboot alpha2 image.

This is just for toying around - not a critical system :smiley:

2

Grab a nightly from here.

http://haiku-files.org/

R1A2 is pretty old now and theres been a ton of fixs for problems like this.

3

It does exactly the same thing (except the ā€œDEVELOPMENTā€-sign on the boot screen :slight_smile: ) Which one is the safest choice on that page?

4

Might be time to try booting in safe mode and selecting a knowk good screen resolution and using the safe mode graphics driver. I would boot in under safe mode anyways. Could be a driver conflict more then likely.

once you get past the bios splash screen hold shift or press the space bar a few times. This should occur before the Haiku splash screen.

5

sounds like driver conflict.

  1. boot into safe-mode (hold down SHIFT key at very start of boot)
  2. choose safe-mode boot option to disable drivers and some servers. That should get Haiku booted.
  3. conflict likely network related or maybe audio.
6

I tried that now :slight_smile: But now it only come to the boot-image (all the icons become highlighted and then nothing happens - I have tried to let it work for about 5 hours :smiley: )

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You do not need 5 hours. If it doesnā€™t work in first 5 minutes (probably less) then giving it more time wonā€™t do anything. Best to try other safe mode options. Many you can try out. Choose two or three to get through them faster.

For fail-safe graphics (VESA) choose a video mode also (ie: use fail-safe video + video resolution). That netbook uses Intel graphics. You will want to try VESA graphics - bug in Intel graphics driver that likely is affecting you and was fixed after Alpha2 release.