Unluckiest hardware for Haiku

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I’ve been regularly trying out Haiku on my primary desktop machine, and with the Alpha2 I think I have the most unluckiest Haiku box out there. In order to get Haiku running on this box, I need to specify the following Safe mode options:

x - same mode (otherwise random crashes when boot to desktop)
x - disable dma (cannot boot from IDE disk otherwise)
x - disable io-apic (this one is optional, but makes USB mouse input less jerky)
x - disable local-apic (locks up after 3 icon without it)
x - disable smp (locks up before 1st icon)

And Haiku finally boots. I’ve basically used a binary approach and tried every combination of safe mode options (it’s taken 2 days of constant reboots).

ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe (nVidia 590 chipset)
AMD X4 9850 Phenom (Black)

However, this combination of safe mode options doesn’t enable any of my 3 network cards. The first alpha, however, required only DMA to be disabled, and the box was almost fully functional. I updated the CPU and BIOS a couple of weeks ago, so I think that the combination of quad core and my BIOS just doesn’t like Haiku. I’m not really complaining, since I’ve had nasty experiences with ASUS BIOS on this box in the past (eg. v203 didn’t allow floppy access from real mode, v0501 didn’t enable DMA, v1201 disable CPU fan monitoring, v2205-2207 didn’t allow bios changes to be saved to flash (unbelievable), currently running 2209). Yay ASUS for quality control, never buying anything from them again.

On the plus side, my MacBookPro loves Haiku. Except for VESA graphics, almost everything else is fully supported. Yay.

So, has anyone got a more unlucky box for Haiku? :slight_smile:

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Probably one of the biggest changes for A2 is the enabling for ACPI by default. Disabling only that didn’t help?

Regardless, you should probably file a bug report for your hardware, if there you haven’t already, and there’s not a similar bug out there. http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/ReportingBugs :slight_smile:

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After updating BIOS & CPU did you test Alpha 1 again?

safe mode option is necessary for MSI crash which I think you are getting. Choosing safe mode disables lots of stuff like net & media servers. So, your network cards will not work.

apic & smp would point to CPU issue too. Probably does not like your Quad Core.

Try out a nightly image before r36225. That way you can test Haiku without ACPI & MSI. At least you likely will be able to run Haiku without enabling safe mode. You still will have to disable smp, apic & dma but you should get back access to network and sound.