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Unable to boot from hard drive.

Forum thread started by kelean on Sat, 2009-10-10 17:26

I have installed haiku to my hd. I am able to boot haiku using the livecd and choosing the failsafe graphics option. I have added haiku to my current bootloader with the chainloder +1 option. I can boot haiku with, the splash screen comes up, the icons light up, screen goes black and seems to freeze.

I am sure it is due to the intel graphic card. I have a opti-plex gx-280 p4 3.0 GHZ.

I tried to change the screen settings but that did not work, It froze the machine with the debugging window dropping down. I did not write down what it said. I will try to do it again when I get a chance,

I have been tring to search for a fix but did not find much help. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kelean

Handling Hard Disk in Laptop

Forum thread started by kglibow on Wed, 2009-10-07 18:28

I have been a ubuntu user for some time. Until that system killed my hard drive. As i found out, most, if not all, linux distrubutions, has problems with correct handling of hard drives. The problem is: linux parks disks too often, hence thay get damaged. More on the subject here: http://kakku.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/s-m-a-r-t-parameters-for-hard-disk...

Any info on how is hard disk in Laptop handled by Haiku?

Two devices with identical partition-tables (Cannot use bootman)

Forum thread started by Bruno Brocoli on Tue, 2009-10-06 10:55

I have two harddisks in my P3 system...

The primarly device is used by Windows.
The secondary device is divided in two partitions...
One for Windows and the other extended one for Haiku...

If i try to run bootman. I cannot write the MBR for Haiku,
because I have two identical partition tables.
Same problem if i try BeOs Max or Zeta... same problem...

...how to change the partition tables so I can get the Haiku bootloader?

Haiku on apple iMac: successful installation, small problem with keyboard while booting.

Forum thread started by swbacklund on Mon, 2009-10-05 21:03

I've just installed haiku on a small partition on my iMac. The installation ran flawlessly, but when I entered the Haiku boot loader via my install cd I could not navigate the menus because I got no response from my keyboard. It obviously worked before this step as I used a key command to access the boot loader. It's just in there that it does not work. Furthermore I notice that the caps lock key does not light up, as if my keyboard has no power.

I have tried three different keyboards, 2 wired and one wireless all with the same results. Two were standard french AZERTY and one was an american QWERTY. Two were apple and one was a logitech. I believe that the problem does not lie with the keyboard itself.

I then booted up the desktop in 'live cd' mode to verify that it would run on my machine, and it did. The OS was very fast and responsive, being held back obviously from being accessed from a cd instead of the drive.

Any reason why my keyboard would not work during while using the boot loader? Any way to circumvent this? I planned to use the boot loader from the CD because it seems the easiest way to boot on a mac. I am mostly installing haiku to see if I can/play around with so I do not mind booting from the cd each time.

Application Icons

Forum thread started by lelldorin on Mon, 2009-10-05 11:21

Hi All,

can i change the icon of an application using the terminal?

LIveCD, fail on boot

Forum thread started by expensivelesbian on Sun, 2009-10-04 19:10

Hello

when trying to boot the Haiku LiveCd I get to icon number 4 and then this

http://bit.ly/3rTSZQ (flikr URL borked the URL parsing.)

any ideas what this means? What can I do to get past the 4th icon, and hopefully install Haiku.

thanks in advance

jp

playing mp3's choppy sound

Forum thread started by cagwait on Sun, 2009-10-04 03:13

device Multimedia controller (Multimedia audio controller) [4|1|0]
vendor 13f6: C-Media Electronics Inc
device 0111: CM8738

l have a C Media 8738 chipset based Soundcard which i believe is compatible with Haiku. However i was unable to get it to work. l then discovered i needed the optional OSS package which i have now installed and sound is now working. However when i use the media player to play mp3's or video's with the sound is very choppy and distorted and when i load another application it stops altogether.
l appreciate i have only ancient hardware a 600 mHz processor but i have 384mb ram.
l read on a previous post that others are having the same problems with much higher spec machines than me and a config file had to be made to solve the problem. Any help would be appreciated. As i dont want to go back to debian linux im enjoying Haiku too much, but i need my music!!

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