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For WalterCon I used my little VIA M-10000 motherboard to demo the state
of the code. I had a 6 gig 5200 rpm IDE hard drive. 

Overall boot time was in the neighborhood of 15 seconds. I was able to
run a number of the apps both from our source tree and from BeOS Max. It
is *not* stable at all; many apps cause it to crash. The machine just
sitting with the about box running ran for 1 hour 54 minutes, then
crashed. I did not try any R5 drivers. 

I have to say, though, that everyone at WC2k5 was pretty impressed. I
was able to show OpenTracker and Open Deskbar running on a 100% Haiku
bootup in a semi-stable state. It looked very nice - the new font
rendering is gorgeous. The system didn't seem slow at all, even running
in VESA. The via graphics driver immediately crashed the app_server - I
wasn't able to look into why.

----- Original Message -----
From: Daneel <daneel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, August 8, 2005 3:30 am
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Booting Haiku (was Haiku hdimage)

> I tried Haiku in VMWARE, but its dificult to use. I just want to 
> know a
> little things:
> 
> 1) Haiku boots fast ? 
> 2) Do you try some beos apps ?
> 3) Its stable ?
> 4) Can you use Beos R5 drivers ?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> El lun, 08-08-2005 a las 10:59 +0100, Chris Peel escribió:
> > I've been away from Haiku from some while but I've been keeping 
> half an eye
> > on the mailing list and the mention of being able to boot into 
> some form of
> > operating system, coupled with serial port debugging sounded too 
> much like
> > the heady ROMWack Amiga days to pass up so I repartitioned my 
> drive into two
> > 3GB chunks, reinstalled R5 and worked my way through Darkwyrm's 
> (who should
> > be praised for such a concise and easy to follow guide) howto.
> > 
> > I certainly had much more success than Nathan - after allowing 
> everything to
> > build and copy over I rebooted into my Haiku partion and eventually
> > (probably took around 2 minutes) booted into a terminal.  The 
> first time I
> > booted neither the mouse nor keyboard worked but I've just tried 
> again and
> > everything is now working a treat.  So far I've played with 
> Playground and
> > had Pulse running - excellent work so far guys!
> > 
> > For information, my test system is an old Tiny PC rehoused in a 
> small form
> > factor box, rough details as follows:
> > 
> > Intel Pentium II @ 350MHz (correctly identified by Pulse)
> > Microstar MS6156 Motherboard (Intel 440BX)
> > (http://www.fujitsu-
> siemens.co.uk/rl/servicesupport/techsupport/Boards/Mothe> 
> rboards/MicroStar/Ms6156/MS6156.htm)> ATI Radeon 7500 32MB AGP low 
> profile graphics card
> > Creative Labs ES1371 sound (on motherboard) not currently plugged 
> in to
> > speakers though...
> > Realtek 8139C 10/100 NIC
> > Mouse and keyboard (both via PS/2)
> > Antec SL220P 220W PSU (for what difference that makes... ;))
> > 
> > Haiku obviously detected the Radeon card fine as I get full 
> colour from
> > boot.  I use a Belkin 4-port KVM and switching between Haiku and 
> Windows> seems to work fine.  I've also go a DB9-DB9 serial cable 
> connected to my XP
> > PC but haven't tried the serial port debugging yet.
> > 
> > 
> > I'd love to help out with the testing aspect of boot-from-cold-
> Haiku so if
> > there's anything I can try assist with, feel free to mail me off 
> list!> 
> > 
> 
> 
>