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Won't install on laptop.

Forum thread started by belfasteddie on Sat, 2010-07-24 16:05

Hi, I run Haiku on my desktop. I have recently been given an oldish laptop, a Compaq Presario 2500, I pulled it down and replaced the Celeron cpu with a P4, cleaned all the dust etc and re-assembled it.
I then reinstalled Xp on it leaving a 4 gig partition for Haiku.
I booted Haiku from the CD drive and all went well, so decided to install to the aforesaid partition.
I initialised the part with the installer and then went on to install, but no go! It appeared to do a screen dump.
I didn't go any further, but would be interested on any thoughts someone might have as to why no install.
cheers,
Eddie.

Clean the filesystem up?

Forum thread started by Finest Bug on Fri, 2010-07-23 22:06

Hello guys,

I have a problem ... my Haiku Alpha 2 installation is very instable at the time. When I run checkfs I run into KDL (same from live CD), and if I run chkbfs on my BeOS installation I get some information about filesystem corruptions, but I'm unable to correct it.

Here is my Terminal output on BeOS:

$ chkbfs /Haiku
bfs: /dev/disk/ide/ata/0/master/0/0_1 is read-only!
Files processed:  15900
/home/config/settings/Media/multi_audio_settings: direct brun 2752423 (len 1) has blocks already set
Files processed:  16400
/home/config/settings/Tracker/TrackerSettings: direct brun 2752422 (len 1) has blocks already set

/home/config/settings/Tracker/tracker_shelf: direct brun 2752421 (len 1) has blocks already set
Files processed:  21702
BFS does not have 49 blocks allocated that should be!!!!
BFS has 14 blocks allocated that should not be.

    Block allocation mismatches detected.  Fixing.

    File system check completed.
$

I don't understand why it is read-only, because I can create files on it.

Thanks for your help. If you need some additional information I will post it :)
Your Finest Bug

Import Windows Drivers to Haiku (and/or run on Mac)

Forum thread started by apgreimann on Fri, 2010-07-23 20:20

I'm new to Haiku, I've run it, and have enjoyed using it--but there is one problem. The wireless and wired connections are not recognizable! Is there a way to port the drivers for Haiku from a driver installation folder from Windows to Haiku, or to import those drivers straight so the new card would work? And if so, can that be activated?

It would make life a whole lot easier to do so--as suddenly, all the missing items would begin to work--but especially the Internet/networking hardware! As of right now, I'm running it in an emulator because without networking, Haiku's not being a full OS.

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Secondly, though this one's only curiosity, I have an iBook G3 with OS X installed; and I'm super interested on putting Haiku in it--after all, Haiku gets it's roots from BeOS. I saw there is a PowerPC port, so I downloaded the boot CD and imaged the PowerPC Haiku image to a flash drive. The little Apple gave me a gray screen (like before the Apple logo would appear) and then the CD drops before I can select the flash drive with the actual Haiku in it. The Mac proceeds to its own OS from there. Any ideas on how this can be done? I hope other interested Apple users are reading this. :)

anyboot live CD -> PANIC: I/O operation would need to be cut

Forum thread started by el zurdo on Thu, 2010-07-22 18:13

CD: anyboot live CD (TDK brand CD-R) burned and verified with ImgBurn on Windows XP Pro SP3 machine [Dell Inspiron 6400]. md5 checksum of zip file was good.

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Hardware:

HP Omnibook XE2-DB notebook
Pentium II 333MHz CPU (yeah, it's a little slower than you recommend)
256MB RAM (max'ed out)
4.6GB Hard Drive
Teac 24X CD drive (read-only, no burn capability)
800x600 24 bit deep LCD display
Silicon Motion SM811 LynxE video card with 2MB graphics memory (don't laugh!)

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Hi Haiku people!

I wanted to check out Haiku on the 11 year old notebook described under "Hardware" above. I was hoping that, if I liked what I saw using the live CD, I could install Haiku R1 Alpha 2 on my hard drive.

Things started off OK; I got a nice-looking graphic screen (the boot screen?) with several little boxes. There's one in the middle with what looks to me like a leaf in front of some kind of box. I think the leaf was blinking.

Then BOOM! I got thrown into the kernel debugger. Please don't ask me to type everything on that screen! It starts off:

PANIC: I/O operation would need to be cut.
Welcome to Kernel Debugging Land...
Thread 12 "main2" running on CPU0
stack trace for thread 12 "main2"
kernel stack: 0x8216c000 to 0x82170000

Then there are 32 frames (0 to 31) listed and finally the "kdebug>" prompt.

I never used an anyboot image before but have done just fine with lots of ISO images. Oh, I changed the ISO and Joliet labels to something that made more sense to me; could that have caused my problem?

Anyway, should I try downloading and burning the ISO image?

I tried booting into safe mode but don't know if I'm doing it right. Identical results. I held down the shift key while the CD was booting, then selected safe mode options. I used my space bar to put an 'x' in front of the Safe mode option, returned to the main menu and selected Continue booting. No joy. :(

I've got Knoppix and Damn Small Linux live CDs that boot OK on this old notebook if I use cheatcodes like fb800x600 and vga=789.

Any help getting the live CD to finish booting so I can see what Haiku might look like on my ancient machine will be much appreciated.

bcm43xx wireless support

Forum thread started by Snuhwolf on Mon, 2010-07-19 22:48

I have a broadcom4306 wireless minipci card that is working with puppy linux flawlessly. Is there support for this in Haiku? I checked the wireless "how to" and it suggests that it is. Does it need the firmware "fw-cutter" to work properly? In linux there is a file "firmware" with all the bcm43xx files in it. Any possibility this wifi card to work?

stable nightly?

Forum thread started by khallebal on Sun, 2010-07-18 12:07

hi everyone
i just wanted to ask wich nightly is considered stable as i'm still using the Apha2 and want to upgrade?

How to choose wifi network?

Forum thread started by Caj on Fri, 2010-07-16 00:15

Hi,

I just got Haiku booting off of an SD card on an EeePC1018.
The Network applet says /dev/net/atheroswifi/0: Ready, and I can apparently access the internet.

The problem is, at no point did I specify what wireless network I wanted to join, and for the life of me I cannot find any preferences pane to even tell me the network I'm on, much less change it. Is there a command to do this, or an application I am missing, or what?

The Network preferences just lists such as the IP/gateway/etc, with an "Apply" button. Nothing about the SSID.

Caj

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