Hi,
I intend to buy an up-squared board. It contains an Atom x7-e3950.
I know that the gpu will use the vesa driver (broxton gpu, a descendent of the skylake one).
The ethernet controllers are realtek RTL8111G (two of them).
I will use a mSATA drive for it.
Is Haiku nightly build stable enough to be installed on a 64bits UEFI platform?
Do I need to install a boot manager or haiku contains one for UEFI platforms?
And if so, what is your easiest way to do it?
Regards,
Eddy
Yes, Haiku is more than stable enough for 64-bit EFI; I boot 64-bit Haiku via EFI as my main bare metal installation.
We have an EFI loader that you can put inside an ESP and then everything should “just work”.
Thanks,
Where can I find this EFI loader?
I previously tried on my surface pro 5. I created a 500 MB EFI boot partition and copied the files from the UEFI boot partition of the nightly image, but I failed booting. I ended up in the UEFI shell.
Regards,
Eddy
The UEFI boot partition contains the EFI bootloader, indeed.
What fails booting? Do you get an error message from the EFI system?
I did not really investigate it. I had to install Linux on it.
I should receive my up-squared very soon (a matter of hours), I will give it a try and feedback any issue/success.
Regards,
Eddy
Just to inform everyone, I successfully installed Haiku OS on the up-squared board, the atom x7-3950 version with a mSATA storage (Samsung 860 EVO 1TB).
Only my screen resolution in fancy (3840x1080 instead of 5120x1440).
I will try to force it.
So displayport is working, network is working.
Regards,
Eddy
I may have to ditch the idea of using Haiku on my Kodlix and get one of these.