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Any Ideas on a small form factor barebones platform for a Haiku only box ?

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I’ve found that the Intel NUCs work really well with Haiku, all the hardware is supported, sound, ethernet, wifi, everything!

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I also recommend getting a cheap Intel NUC box. Haiku usually boots out of the box with those mini PCs with most of the hardware working perfectly. I have a NUCi3BNK Kaby Lake model for development and testing purposes.

If you are after a “very small” form factor, either an UP Board or a LattePanda Alpha should both work on Haiku.

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Intel’s highest end NUC probably would not work just beware of that one as it has AMD Vega graphics… I think it might still have integrated intel graphics though not sure.

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Thanks !
Ill get one!
Also I found a Hardware thread esleware on this forum.

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In a NUC with Vega, all display outputs are connected to the Vega chip, not the Intel one.

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Apparently a cheap combination (even on the go):

Mini PC - CSL Narrow Box Ultra HD Compact / Win 10
https://www.csl-computer.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=14882&cPath=5_278&pl=st_top
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CSL mini wireless keyboard
https://www.csl-computer.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=12073&before_products_id=14882

If someone lives in Hannover, he could look there with a haiku stick …

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How is this going to work?

NUC

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Seems reasonable I’d go for a larger but slower Inland SSD 480GB for the same/similar price though… works fine in my x140e and is fast enough for me. The Samsung is definitly faster but… it’s still a sata drive.

The inland SSD’s apparently have toshiba flash memory. It has no cache other than the 32mb on the controller though so theoretically would wear out a little faster under heay use.

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return_0e,

Your NUCi3BNK works OOB ? network and audio ? display mode?

Thanks for the help.

Don

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Yes it does. I have one and everything works.

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Thanks, I’m ordering one now!

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mmm… Seems I ordered a boxnuc7i3bnk with m.2 ssd. Is this going to work?

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if you use a sata m.2 drive. I use a WD Blue m.2. Green should work fine too, just not Black, they’re nvme.

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Thanks for the reply. Ordered a m.2 drive. should be up and running Monday.

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I have an Intel NUC model NUC7i5BNH and unfortunately I wasn’t able to boot Haiku from the thumb drive.

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Do you have UEFI enabled?

Or are you using Legacy boot? Try the other way whichever you are using. Also note only 64bit images have UEFI support.

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Hi, I tried both Legacy and UEFI boot with same results using the 64bit image. Here are the errors of each mode: IMG_0354

I’m booting from USB3.0, could it be the cause?

Cheers

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Almost definitely disable USB 3 in your BIOS if possible. Or use a USB 2 port if you have one USB 3 has made recent progress but isn’t completely stable.

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According to the Specs my NUC has 4 external USB3, 2 front 2 back, and 2 USB 2.0 inside but I dont have the cable to try that so I’m basically stuck with 3.0. Also according to the specs there’s a microsdxc port… which i didn’t know it had, so I’ll try to boot from that instead later today and I’ll post my result here.

Cheers