Problems booting Haiku

Forum thread started by renacuajo on Wed, 2006-10-25 20:36

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

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Re: Problems booting Haiku

by umccullough - 2006-10-25 20:58
renacuajo wrote:
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?