[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #6324: Haiku boot image fails with 512 MB RAM
- From: "Karvjorm" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:00:25 -0000
#6324: Haiku boot image fails with 512 MB RAM
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Reporter: Karvjorm | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: System/Boot Loader | Version: R1/alpha2
Keywords: Boot image 512 MB RAM | Blocked By:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
Blocking: |
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I have tested this with two nightly builds in June. The last one was June
28, 2010 and obviously the latest nightly build.
When I put my Haiku ISO boot image CD-ROM to my laptop with plenty of RAM,
I can boot the operating system and get the working desktop (and I could
easily install Haiku to my laptop[, but I do not want to]).
But if I put the same Haiku ISO boot image CD-ROM to an old Hewlett
Packard Vectra desktop computer with only 512 MB RAM memory, the boot
crashes when it should show images with black background. The same images
can be shown in the picture in the following page
== http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/bootloader.html ==
But in Vectra only a black screen with a color bar in the left top corner
is shown.
I have tested this with two displays. First with LG FLATROL L1930LQ and
then with hpL1520 (shown in the included picture).
My guess is that the reason is out of memory during boot. I can easily run
Haiku in VMware image with 512MB RAM (setting), and maybe it could work in
real hardware too, if I only were able to install the operating system. I
have planned to move this hard drive to some other desktop computer with
more RAM memory to install operating system and return then back to Vectra
with working hard drive. But maybe we could try to fix this bug first.
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