Loading Haiku on Windows 8

1

I have a brand new out of the box Lenovo PC model H520 and I need to install Haiku on this. However, it has Windows 8 on it and I can’t get to a boot screen to even try to boot from the Haiku CD. Also, is this system even compatible with Haiku?

2

check any documentation that came with your computer to see if there’s a key that needs to be held with the power button to get to the bios or the boot menu.

3

  1. check if your laptop has uefi. i think it thebcase for windows 8.

  2. i think haiku doesn’t support uefi.

  3. turn off secure boot and enable bios emulation.

  4. boot from haiku cd and hope your hardware is supported.

lg,

mlueft

4

Depending on manufacturer’s UEFI implementation, “enable bios emulation” option is often called “load/enable CSM”, where CSM is Compability Support Module, an UEFI module that reimplement BIOS functions.