I’m having trouble with installing Alpha 4 on my Thinkpad X40. I am eager to use the WPA wireless so that I can actually test it out in daily use. I try booting from the CD, and it freezes when you see the Haiku logo. It only gets to the HD icon.
I burned an ISO, tested it on my desktop, works fine. But, I don’t have wireless in my Desktop. I tried to boot the CD on my Thinkpad, which has previously worked with Haiku Alpha r2 and r3. I’ve previously booted with USB CD-ROM and USB sticks. So it is not a problem with the media. How do I get the error codes to know what is not working.
X40 Thinkpad
CPU 1.2 GHz Pentium M
MB bus speed 400MHz
RAM 1.0 GB DDR SD-RAM
HD 8GB USB + 8GB SD Card
WIFI Atheros AR5212 / AR5213
GPU 64MB Intel Extreme Graphics 2
1024 x 768 XGA LCD
OS - Linux Mint Maya 13
-OK, I figured out what the problem is on my laptop. Since the hard drive has been broken, I forgot I had changed the BIOS so that it would skip the hard drive. Linux Mint would keep trying to do a fsck on the hard drive before it would finally skip it and boot from the USB. But Haiku seems to ignore it and boot.
I just have to remember to change it out if I go back to Linux Mint later.
In case you can’t find a ticket at http://dev.haiku-os.org/ that matches your problem, please file a new one and attach the file /boot/common/var/log/syslog to it.
I think I figured out the problem. If you guys look at what I listed for Hard Drive, you will see the reason. I am using one of those micro USB cards for the OS, and a SD card for storage because my HD is dead. My Thinkpad was an Ultrabook before it was cool to be an Ultrabook : ) It’s super small and uses a 1.8" HD ($80.00) that I don’t want to spend the money to replace.
I first tried the fail safe video, thinking it might not correctly identify my video card. But that still froze the install (see picture below). Then I booted safe mode, disable IDE DMA seemed to do the trick. I’ll post again and give an update.
