On 11/04/2010 05:29 PM, David Given wrote:
I have a really old Toshiba laptop, a 520CDT. It's got a Pentium 166 and 48MB of RAM, which means that it has rather limited use these days. I did try to boot Haiku on it, and it just doesn't work: as soon as the boot loader loads I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in it and it just hangs. I can't say I'm very surprised... My question is: can Haiku be made to run on this at all? I know that technically 128MB is the minimum supported RAM, but can this be shaved down at all? For example, does such a thing as a command-line Haiku setup with no GUI exist?
I don't think that your problem comes from the available RAM size. I got the same issue with 1 or 4 GB RAM ( Pentium4 or Intel®P8500 ) NB : booting from HDD / CD / USD doesn't change anything. See http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4408 http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5539 http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5696 http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5720http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3441