Hello,
I have installed a haiku.image on a harddrive, as it was described, but when I boot from that drive it shows the Haiku-logo for 5 seconds and then reboots. I tried to use failsafe-modes by pressing ‘space’ but it didn’t react.
My system is a Duron 800, Geforce 2MX, 384 MB RAM, and well the harddisk is 200 MB, yes MEGA-Bytes. Could this be a problem? In other words
Are there minimum system-requirements for booting Haiku?
Thanks for your help
Jean Rene
Hello,I have installed a haiku.image on a harddrive, as it was described, but when I boot from that drive it shows the Haiku-logo for 5 seconds and then reboots. I tried to use failsafe-modes by pressing ‘space’ but it didn’t react.
My system is a Duron 800, Geforce 2MX, 384 MB RAM, and well the harddisk is 200 MB, yes MEGA-Bytes. Could this be a problem? In other words:
Are there minimum system-requirements for booting Haiku?Thanks for your help
Jean Rene
I have booted Haiku on lesser machines - except for maybe the HD size 
but I doubt that’s the issue.
The best thing you can do is employ a null-modem serial cable and a second machine with a terminal program running to see what the serial debug output is during boot. This would be used to identify what the last debug output statement was before it spontaneously reboots.
If you don’t have a serial cable, or second machine, it will probably be more difficult to track down the cause.
You should be able to enter the boot menu by hitting space BEFORE it begins booting (hit it multiple times during POST - that usually works)
Out of curiosity, is the keyboard connected via PS/2 or USB?
O.K., now I can enter the boot menu, but none of the options showed any effect or output. And I don’t have a second computer. I think I have to wait for the next images, or are there old ones available, too?
Out of curiosity, is the keyboard connected via PS/2 or USB?
Jean Rene
I don’t see why it would be puking on your hardware; it should boot fine AFAIK.
As for the older images, I’ve got some from back in early October that you might want to give a shot: http://www.haikuhost.com/schmidp/ (at the bottom)
Keep us updated!
Ok,
it’s a long time ago, but it’s good news, too. I think the 200MB-drive is somehow damged, or Haiku, wants to write something, where there’s no space, but never mind this harddisk here comes the 6GB HD right away from the electronic waste, and there Haiku boots.
Very amazing.
Greetings and thanks for the help
Jean Rene