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Help with getting Alpha 2 boot on VIA EPIA ME6000

Forum thread started by nbrophy on Wed, 2010-08-04 12:40

I am trying to get Haiku R1 Alpha 2 (haiku-r1alpha2-iso) to boot a VIA EPIA ME6000 Mini-ITX board. I have tried booting from CD multiple times (regular, safemode, and safemode with everything disabled). It always crashes and enters KDL at the boot disk stage of the boot up.

Has anyone else has had luck with this board?

I have "Enable debug syslog" set but when I do a warm reboot after a crash I never get the option to "Save syslog from previous session". Is there a way to save off the syslog to USB drive?

VIA EPIA ME6000 Mini-ITX Board Specs

CPU: 600MHz Eden Fanless
Chipset: VIA CLE266 NorthBridge
VIA VT8235M SouthBridge
VGA: Integrated VIA Unichrome
Onboard Lan: VIA VT6103
Onboard Audio: VIA VT1616 AC'97
OnBoard TV-Out: VIA VT1622
OnBoard IEEE1394: VIA VT6397S
Memory: Dimm DDR266 512MB

I only have a generic IDE CD-ROM drive connected when I boot. No other drives.

Thanks,

Screen refresh rate

Forum thread started by Tronix on Tue, 2010-08-03 06:44

hello guys,

I am using Haiku anyboot image r2alpha with my USB-stick.

How can i change screen refresh rate? I am going to "Preferences", then i run "Screen", but i see
screen resolution only. Not refresh.
I have old 15" CRT monitor with maximum resolution 1024x768@85Hz. Haiku set refresh rate by default to
60Hz and it so terrible for my eyes. Btw, if i right understand, Haiku detect my monitor as Shamrock 123.3" (i see this string in "Screen" properties). This is untrue, of course. Maybe haiku have some
text INI-files and i can edit it by hands?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Huawei E220 on Haiku?

Forum thread started by krzaczor93 on Sun, 2010-08-01 01:43

Hello,

Is it any possibility to use Huawei E220 3G modem on Haiku?

Haiku can't find root filesystem on boot...

Forum thread started by Wookie on Wed, 2010-07-28 16:19

So I've got a small laptop that I tried to install Haiku on. It doesn't have a CD/DVD-ROM drive so here's how I did it:

0. I'm using a CF micro-harddrive as the disk for this laptop. I am using another laptop with a CD/DVD-ROM drive to run the installation.
1. I boot up Linux on the installation hard drive with the CF micro-drive in a USB memcard reader. I partitioned the CF micro-drive to have a small 10 mb primary Linux partition and an extended BeOS partition taking up the rest.
2. I set up the small 10 mb partition to be a grub partition. It is formatted ext2 and has grub installed on it.
3. I rebooted into the Haiku installation CD.
4. I formatted the extended partition as BeFS and mounted it.
5. I installed Haiku on the extended partition.
6. I then setup the bootmanager by running that from the installer.

Now, at this point, I can reboot the installation laptop and have it boot Haiku from the CF card just fine. But when I put the CF card into the target laptop, Haiku boots but crashes when trying to mount the root file system.

Here's what I think is happening and I need your help to confirm this. When the CF micro-drive is in the USB card reader connected to the installation laptop, the partitions come up as /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 in Linux and (hd1,0) and (hd1,1) in grub. When I put the CF micro-drive in the target laptop, it is the primary drive in the IDE bus and therefore comes up as (hd0,0) and (hd0,1) in grub and would be /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 in Linux, if Linux were installed.

I properly fixed up the grub boot commands by manually editing them at boot time so that it would boot (hd0,1) instead of (hd1,1).

What I suspect is happening is that when Haiku gets installed, and the boot manager gets set up using the installation laptop, it records in the BeFS somewhere that the root filesystem is the second partition on the second hard drive. But then when I put the CF micro-drive in the target laptop, the root filesystem is actually the second partition on the first hard drive and that's why the root filesystem can't be found when booting on the target laptop.

Is this the case? Does the hard drive number (first or second) get recorded somewhere in the BeFS? How would I fix up the contents of the BeFS so that Haiku can find the root partition on boot? I wish there was a terminal shell and vim available in the installer. That would make things a lot easier because I could poke around in the mounted file system and fix things up.

What I'll have to do now is boot the live CD on the installation laptop, mount the CF micro-drive in the card reader, and then fix things up if needed.

--Wookie

Boot problem on Acer Aspire 5102

Forum thread started by Dima Kostenich on Sun, 2010-07-25 17:33

Hello everyone! Few days ago I created Live CD and USB stick with Haiku. They both work fine on my PC. I was satisfied with the OS and decided to install it on my laptop. And there I have some problems. Booting from Live CD freezes after showing the red rocket on the logo-screen: the screen becomes black and nothing else happens after that. With the USB stick the situation is more interesting: it doesn't work at all. Boot process freezes at the begining. So, I can't see even the logo-screen. Please, give some advices what to do.

Configuration of my laptop:
1. CPU: AMD Turion 64-bit 2.2 GHz
2. RAM: 1.5 GB DDR2
3. VIDEO: ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
4. HDD: SATA 160 GB.

Compiling Haiku on R1/alpha2 cannot because wrong version gcc 2.95

Forum thread started by cebif on Sat, 2010-07-24 23:58

I'm trying to compile Haiku on R1/alpha2 for a gcc4 hybrid. I had already done so previously for a previous compile of Haiku and it worked. At first I tried to just do a:

~/develop/haiku/haiku> svn update

but that returned a message something like: malformed file. Cannot remember the exact message.
I then deleted everything in ~/develop/ and downloaded everything again with this terminal command:

svn checkout http://svn.haiku-os.org/haiku/haiku/trunk haiku/haiku

After the source download I do:

cd generated.x86gcc4
  ../configure --alternative-gcc-output-dir ../generated.x86gcc2 --cross-tools-prefix /boot/develop/abi/x86/gcc4/tools/current/bin/

That works alright. I then in terminal:

cd ..
  cd generated.x86gcc2
  ../configure --alternative-gcc-output-dir ../generated.x86gcc4 --cross-tools-prefix /boot/develop/abi/x86/gcc2/tools/current/bin/

That returns:

GCC version 2.95.3-haiku-100712 is required!
Please download it from www.haiku-os.org...

I cannot find this version anywhere. Where do I get it? Can I do something to make it use the version in R1/alpha2? That is: gcc-2.95.3-haiku-100420.

New to Haiku, problems with instalation

Forum thread started by bojan.r on Sat, 2010-07-24 22:18

Hi guys, it's my first message to this forum :)

I have a problem, so I'm here.

I've made an old PC just for fun (and old games), and I wanted to try Haiku on it, but it won't boot. The PC is:
Abit BP6 motherboard, 2 Celerons at 550MHz, 512MB SD RAM, GForce 2 64MB, Voodoo 2 SLI, Creative AWE 64 Gold ISA Sound Card and a Maxtor 40GB HDD. Currently the HDD is hooked to the HPT366 UltraATA controler on the mobo, instead of the integrated ATA33 controler, and it's running Win2K decently (I've added HPT366 driver during instalation via floppy drive).

I tried booting the LiveCD of Haiku, it starts booting and after the 4th icon colors (flashes up), the boot stops, console pops-up and I get a message that there are no boot partitions detected. I've tried diconnecting the HDD form HPT366, changed the DVD-ROM from slave to master, and tried changing the boot options, but nothing changes.

Where do I go from here? I'm a total beginer at this, haven't gone far form Windows so far, but I want to expand my (limited) knowledge. And so I need your help...

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