There’s a few different builds of it available here:
Should we put out a call to see if people are interesting in mirroring the Beta3 release? It would be nice to have more mirrors for this release.
I’ can see if I take a webhosting for a Haiku mirror
CDN hosting with large volumes can be pretty cheap, might be something Haiku Inc. could fund?
Currently there are only 2 options:
- Extract it from OS image file.
- Compile it with
jam -q haiku_loader.efi.
There’s already a dedicated thread about this very topic:
As of hrev55201, The latest EFI bootloader is now available on every install of Haiku under:
/boot/system/data/platform_loaders
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I tried it in my computer. There was no issues on booting, the desktop was working and WebPositive could play videos on Youtube. But there was no sound [in videos (?)] and i couldn’t mount any volumes on my HDD. About videos, only pausing/resuming were working and web pages were rendering incorrectly.
Thanks, it’s perfect
Yeah… we had this issue last release (unable to get updated EFI loaders without extracting them from the install media).
Now we can begin to automate some of the EFI loader installation in the future with the files available.
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Good day @kallisti5 ,
Just a question regarding EFI. From what I’ve read (correct me if I understood wrong), UEFI does not need the bootx64.efi to be on a FAT32 partition, can be on any type. Could it be possible to move it from an /efiboot FAT32 partition into the BeFS /boot partition, so we could get rid of that FAT32 thing?
Regards,
RR
This is incorrect, EFI requires the esp to be of type fat32 for pc booting, and allows fat16 for thumb drive booting. (or more precisely it requires fat32 to be supported by the firmware, technically there can be others supported too, but practically we want haiku to be installable on normal efi computers)
Besides, fat32 has wide support, and this allows a much much saner multiboot environment than before efi, and if you don’t use it for that the bootloader is still much easier to maintain than the mbr way before it.
Just my 2 cents
This webkit bug is one of two major regressions seen.
- #17062 (WebPositive rendering issues - borders rendering incorrectly) – Haiku – Borders rendering black. Fixed. (thanks @jessicah !)
- #17066 (WebPositive rendering issues - text appearing and disappearing) – Haiku – Text disappearing. Hopefully we can solve this one… it’s a lot more complex to debug.
Once we get these solved, A new R1/beta3 TC/RC will be generated.
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@kallisti5 Will RC3 contain all intel_Extreme fixes to date? I just ran RC2 and saw it’s not yet upto par on this.
Something nice I saw: current nightly and RC2 both run on Microsoft surface3 (no audio or network). This enables me to have a poke at it’s intel gfx (not yet in the driver). I guess this part is post beta3 though 
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The TC2 image contains all of your intel_extreme fixes so far (see https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/log/?h=r1beta3)
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Ah ok, I stand corrected, thank you
I keep a mirror at https://mirrors.tnonline.net/?dir=haiku/haiku-release/r1beta3 (will update to tc2 shortly)
There is also the IPFS which is mirrored and available through ipns://hpkg.haiku-os.org
IPFS can be found through several HTTP gateways such as /ipns/hpkg.haiku-os.org/
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I created a non-boot issue with TC2 https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/17072. I have never tried to boot previous releases on this hardware.
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I haven’t seen anyone mention this, but on the latest update for the TC2 (55181 +38) Haikuwebkit 1.8.2 is included
