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Just thought I'd share how I solved my problems getting Haiku Alpha 3 to boot. You may find the ultimate solution amusing; hopefully some may find it helpful.

I started off with a CD of Haiku that I had burned, made a partition, then installed it. However, because I had installed Windows first on my boot HDD, my bootloader was Windows Boot Loader, not GRUB, and the Haiku partition did not show up. Further, when I tried to use the CD to start the install I had on the HDD partition, it kept on acting as a Live CD. Problem.

"Fine", I thought, I'll go into my Ubuntu partition and make GRUB the bootloader, then edit the scripts per the instructions at Haiku-os.org. "How hard can it be?", I thought to myself, naively. Well, I found the Ubuntu HUD (Head Up Display) more or less impossible to use, and working out how to launch GRUB was not exactly easy.

I had been thinking about trying out Linux Mint, and it seemed like a good time .. so I downloaded the ISO, burned, and installed .. and presto, Linux Mint installed GRUB 1.99 for me and helpfully compiled a list of all the OSes I had installed. So: I have a nice list presented to me at boot time, I scroll down to Haiku, select, and boot. Problem solved.

[Did I say that _I_ solved my problem? No, I should give all credit to those user-friendly guys at Mint. Hooray for Mint!]

Hey everybody,

recently I purchased VMware Fusion 4 on my Macbook Pro, and successfully installed Haiku. I am in need of file sharing between my Host which is Mac OS X Lion, and my Guest which of course is Haiku. I do not want to get into FTP or AFP, I've used them and had absolutely no luck. Any Help?

Info:

Host: Macbook Pro running OS X Lion

Guest: Haiku (latest version)

Software: VMware Fusion 4

Thanks

Apologies if this has been covered before but I cant find it anywhere.

Whenever I try to boot from the live CD it gets so far and crashes. Usually I get the blue background with the hand/pointer and then it freezes, sometimes the window asking me to choose a language appears, then it freezes.

Occasionally I get a screen dump of text indicating a kernel crash which seems to relate to a problem with the Ethernet driver but thats not very often.

The machine is a Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM. I normally run Linux on it without a problem so I dont think theres a hardware fault. Below is the output from the Linux lspci command listing the hardware components:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 12)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 12)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 12)
00:1f.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 12)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 12)
00:1f.4 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 12)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 12)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730 Pro AGP [Radeon HD 4600 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]
02:00.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller (rev 50)
02:05.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)

Its a Microsoft PS/2 keyboard and a MS USB mouse on a PS/2 adapter.

Any ideas whats going wrong? Id really like to get it installed so I can start writing some programs